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Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Better MinGW support
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Sergey Lungu |
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Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Better MinGW support |
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:08:49 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:42:55PM +0100, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 17:28:15 +0300, Sergey Lungu wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:35:48PM +0100, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> > > IMHO that's a bug. Are you sure the destination directory existed?
> > > (Just double-checking, the below suggestion wouldn't work otherwise.)
> > Actually it's not a bug --- it's a normal behaviour for MSYS. I'm not
> > that much familiar with MSYS, but I assume it's `ln' just makes a copy
> > of source file. Correct me, if I'm wrong.
> Good point. On the other hand, it could mimic the behavior of "ln -s"
> better (at least for existing sources) if it tried to mimic by figuring
> out where the source would actually lie (instead if in ".").
Seems reasonable for me. This might be proposed on mingw mailing lists.
Anyway, my solution seems to workaround this problem, so we can live
with this behaviour.
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Sergey Lungu