Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:02:04 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Patch for fileutils 4.0 WRT symlinks
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> From: "Laurynas Biveinis" <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:36:11 +0200
> 
> Hello, below is the mostly trivial patch which is necessarry
> to get working fileutils with djgpp 2.04.

Thanks.

> -#ifdef  __DJGPP__
> -/* DJGPP doesn't have S_ISLNK defined, because MS-DOS doesn't support links.
> - * However, DJGPP's `link' simulates hard links by copying, and we can
> - * have ``symbolic links'' for DJGPP .EXE programs.  Therefore, just
> - * for the purpose of this program, it makes sense to define S_ISLNK
> - * so we could have working `ln'.  */
> -
> -#define S_ISLNK(x)  (0)     /* defined, but no file is a link */
> -#endif

I'd prefer for this to be conditioned on HAVE_WORKING_LSTAT, so that
Fileutils could be built with older versions of DJGPP.  It would need
an additional test in configure.

Alternatively, make that test look at __DJGPP_MINOR__.

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