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Re: Suggestions for cygcheck
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Bengt-Arne Fjellner <Bengt-Arne dot Fjellner at ltu dot se>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:04:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for cygcheck
- References: <4777.130.240.136.130.1153237565.squirrel@pinus.tt.luth.se>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote:
> Hi
> I would like to suggest that cygcheck file should know about symlinks
> i.e.
> $ ls -la `which xmgrace`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 Administratör Användare 32 Jul 18 16:37 /usr/bin/xmgrace ->
> /usr/share/grace/bin/xmgrace.exe*
>
> $ cygcheck xmgrace # now gives
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\xmgrace.exe
> C:/cygwin/bin/xmgrace.exe
>
> $ cygcheck xmgrace # Suggested behaviour
> Found: C:\cygwin\bin\xmgrace.exe
> which is a symlink to /usr/share/grace/bin/xmgrace.exe
>
> Or something like that
I recall making a patch for this. I'll dig it out, and see if it's been
submitted, or if it still needs more work.
Igor
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