[PATCH v3 2/2] x86_64/i386 fenv: Replace symlink with include fenv_stub.c
Corinna Vinschen
vinschen@redhat.com
Thu Feb 20 09:01:00 GMT 2020
Hey Joel,
the patch itself is fine, but I'm puzzeling over the commit message.
On Feb 19 08:03, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Having symlinks for these files led to an issue reported to the
> RTEMS Project that showed up on MSYS2. Per the report we received,
MSYS2 is a Cygwin clone which understands any kind of Cygwin symlink,
an invention from way back when Windows really didn't have symlinks.
> there are no such things as links on Windows,
NTFS has symlinks since Windows Vista, about 2007.
> it is a copy of the
> file and if it does not exist it has to fail. The working all depends
> on the order the tar file is built. If the links appear in the tar file
> before the source exists, it cannot copy the file.
Isn't that just somebody using an inadequate tool here? Do you have a
pointer to a bugzilla/github/whatever issue clarifying the actual
problem?
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat
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