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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 20:32:20 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.3.11-3: still cannot compile perl-5.8
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On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:35:10PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 25. Juni 2002 um 23:18 schriebst du:
>>PerlLIO_link runs through a bunch of macros and ends up calling the
>>POSIX link function (hard links).  Note that Configure only detects
>>whether or not you have a link() function available to be called; it
>>never actually calls it to see if it is operational.  On operating
>>systems where link() returns ENOSYS every time it is called, you must
>>add a line to the hints file that sets d_link=undef.  (See
>>hints/vos.sh, because the VOS system is one that provides a dummy
>>link() function that always returns ENOSYS).  Configure will print a
>>silly WHOA message about the discrepancy between the hint (no link) and
>>the libraries (link is there), but you can just ignore it.
>
>Many thanks for the clarification, actually Cygwin has link() but it
>seems to be broken in the current release.

No, it's not that simple.  If it was, the problem would be fixed now.
'ln' works fine.

cgf

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