Re: Problems trying to make 2.5.1--i686-pc-cygwin [REPOST from -winnt]
On Thursday 26 Jul 01, Matt Tucker writes:
That depends. If the link exists but is broken, then make will think
it
doesn't exist and will try to remake it. But then if you do 'ln -s',
the link is already there and the ln command will fail.
On the other hand, if the link is not broken but simply wrong, this
does no good. And arguably it's not up to a make process to fix a
broken tree. That's what 'make clean' is for.
Matt, thanks for pointing this out. Sorry for generating so much
noise.
David, does this explains your problem?
> So there is clearly something broken here, possibly in Cygwin.
I'll
> have a closer look.
I don't think I need to any more, given Matt's explanation.
There is still a bug somewhere with installexe.sh not being
copied/linked, though. I'll try to look at that later.
Thanks,
David