Message-ID: <003701c2b0ab$b58ce080$0100a8c0@p4>
From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
References: <E18SymM-0000UT-00 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: fileutils 4.1: ls and symlinks [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:04:34 +1100
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

> Below is a patch for 'ls' from fileutils 4.1. It's another case
> where the path handling needs to be updated to cope
> with DOS-style absolute paths.
>
> This patch is important, because the test suite uses symlinks
> extensively and uses 'ls' to check that 'cp', 'mv', etc.
> handle symlinks correctly.
>
> You can also get the patch here:
>
>
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/4.1/djgpp/fil41-c
vs-ls-symlink-20021230.diff
>
> I'm not planning on doing another fileutils 4.1 release for a while.
> Andrew, please apply this patch, when building fileutils against CVS.
> You may also want to include this patch in the source distributions
> in gnu/filutil4.1/djgpp.
By the time I get my main XP box back to an operational stage I will be able
to incorporate the chanegs and put the updates sources on clio. I estimate
that this may take me until the weekend or late next week. I love it when
windoz goes a bit wonky.....grrrrr.....

Andrew