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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:53:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: .exe magic reloaded
From: Al <oss DOT elmar AT googlemail DOT com>
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It does not:

> It does:
>
> =A0$ cd tmp
> =A0$ mkdir dir1 dir2
> =A0$ cp /bin/echo.exe dir1
> =A0$ ln -s `pwd`/dir1/echo.exe dir2/echo
> =A0$ ls -l dir*
> =A0dir1:
> =A0total 52
> =A0-rwxr-xr-x 1 corinna vinschen 49166 2010-09-06 10:59 echo.exe
>
> =A0dir2:
> =A0total 1
> =A0lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna vinschen 31 2010-09-06 11:00 echo -> /home/corinn=
a/tmp/dir1/echo.exe
> =A0$ dir2/echo hello
> =A0hello
> =A0$ /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo hello
> =A0hello
>

$ /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo.exe hello
bash: /home/corinna/tmp/dir2/echo.exe: No such file or directory

That's what Perls "Configure" does. Still the magic works only in the
target directory, but not on the level of the symlink itself.

Al

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