Claudio Natoli wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> > I just checked from the MinGW console and I see:
> > [snip]
> > It accepts ln -s, but does nothing with it.
>
> And even if it had worked, it wouldn't really matter, since we don't
> actually want to *run* the system under MinGW/msys, just build it.
>
> I think the idea of implementing in symlinks for non-compliant platforms in
> md.c has some merit. FWIW, looks like that is how cygwin implements
> symlinks...
Why can't we use MS Win32 shortcut files to simulate symlinks? MinGW
doesn't do it, so I suppose it isn't possible.
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