From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200107140508.HAA14176@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Comments on GCC 3.0 distribution
In-Reply-To: <005401c10c04$124ccc70$0a02a8c0@acceleron> from Andrew Cottrell at "Jul 14, 2001 11:26:55 am"
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According to Andrew Cottrell:
> I had a quick test on the Win2K box and performed the following quickn test:
> 1) Setup a symlink "ln -s d:\djgpp\bin\zip.exe d:\djgpp\bin\z.exe"
> 2) Execute zip.exe to ensure that the help was displayed
> 3) Execute z (or z.exe) and it worked the same as executing zip.exe
> 4) Files from the DJGPP bin directory were:
> 
> D:\djgpp\bin>ls -la --color z*.*
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root         2048 Jul 14 11:20 z.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root        86868 Dec 24  1999 zip.exe
> 
> The ln.exe file is:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 dosuser  root       133632 May 26  2000 ln.exe
> 
> Is the test above correct? Are there any other tests I should do to check
> that symlinks work fully under Win2K? Where do I find these tests?

No. A symlink would have size 510 or 511 (I've forgotten which one). A
size of 2048 means a DJGPP stub (the old way of simulating symlinks
for executables).

You'd need to rebuild ln.


Right,

						MartinS