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Setup.exe: "/" prefix on symlinks
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:13:17 -0600
- Subject: Setup.exe: "/" prefix on symlinks
Mainly a heads-up for you Rob:
I'm getting bad symlinks now with the latest setup.exe. They end up looking
like this:
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 Gary_VS None 21 Dec 27 00:36 etags.exe -> /ctags.exe
...
The "/" of course leads to all manner of havoc. This is the earliest one I see
here.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot.