Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 10:09:10 -0500
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister AT ios DOT com>
Subject: Re: V2 ld crashing
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com

At 09:19 AM 2/25/96 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Ian Viemeister wrote:
>
>> At 07:23 PM 2/23/96 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> >Try renaming the file and modifying lib/specs to match.
>> 
>> Ok, this probably should be in the FAQ - when using Win95, 
>> (which treats *.lnk as shortcuts), ld has the possiblity 
>> of failing when trying to access lib/djgpp.lnk Changing the 
>> name of djgpp.lnk to djgpp.ld and changing the reference to 
>> djgpp.lnk in lib/specs to djgpp.ld solves this problem.
>
>Please elaborate.  What are those ``shortcuts'' and how does this special 
>treatment they get from Win95 interfere with DJGPP linker?
>

In Win95, a Shortcut is a very pale imitation of a symbolic link. 
The UI creates the file xxxxxx.lnk when it it told to create a 
shortcut, and then it 1) hides the extension and 2) treats the 
xxxxxxx.lnk as a reference to what it points to e.g., you can cd 
into a shortcut that represents a directory, and open a document 
that is pointed to by a shortcut.
The only problem is that ld uses 'djgpp.lnk', and Win95 seems to 
try to interpret the contents whenever it is accessed.

Ian
vmeister AT ios DOT com
http://ios.com/~vmeister/