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Re: Override LN_S and support Windows symlinks


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Override LN_S and support Windows symlinks
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:03:53 -0800
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 2025-01-10 04:21, Antonin Décimo wrote:
1. Could _AS_LN_S_PREPARE be changed to work with or recognize Cygwin
     and MSYS2?

I suppose it could, but what specific change is being proposed? It's not
entirely clear from your email.

Fair enough. Would it be possible to remove the `ln -s file dir` check?

Why would that be a good idea? We don't want later shell code to execute 'ln -s F D' on systems where this command isn't equivalent to 'ln -s F D/F'.

And would it work for AC_PROG_LN_S to set
`as_ln_s="CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict ln -s"`? or export the
CYGWIN or MSYS env var in the configure and config.status scripts?

I suppose so, though I'm no Cygwin expert. The former sounds less intrusive.



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