Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Better MinGW support

[Sergey Lungu]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:42:12PM +0100, Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 01:33:09 +0300, Sergey Lungu wrote:
> > Yes, I agree, it looks ugly and _may_ look useless, but for some reason
> > otherwise it fails on MSYS. Do you have a better working solution?

> What fails?

The above command (on make install).

> What's the error message?

rm -f /c/tmp/bin/lz
ln -s uz /c/tmp/bin/lz
ln: creating symbolic link `/c/tmp/bin/lz' to `uz': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-scripts] Error 1

> What's the phenomenon? What does the symlink look like?

It cannot be created.

> I wonder why it doesn't work, because here you have modified a section
> which seems to work correctly without the path:

> -               $(LN_S) mtools $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$j ; \
> +               $(LN_S) mtools$(EXE) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$j ; \

It is strange indeed, but the above works, while the one at the top does
not.

-- 
Sergey Lungu