[Bug 15679] New: cygwin symlinks not working in wine

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Sun Oct 19 08:51:39 CDT 2008


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15679

           Summary: cygwin symlinks not working in wine
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.6
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://cygwin.com
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download, source
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
        ReportedBy: dank at kegel.com


Surprisingly, cygwin seems to work nowadays,
as long as you do everything inside a wineconsole
running cygwin.bat.  (Perhaps cygwin apps should
work outside wineconsole; that would be a separate
bug report.)

However, cygwin's gcc doesn't work unless you 
replace certain cygwin symlinks with unix ones, e.g.
$ cd .wine/drive_c/cygwin/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin
$ for a in *; do ln -sf ../../../bin/$a; done 

Likewise, /bin/vi doesn't work, as it's a symlink to vim.exe.

In fact, cygwin's ls -l doesn't even recognize cygwin's symlinks as such:

$ ls -l vi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dank mkpasswd 18 Oct 19 05:53 vi
$ cat vi
!<symlink>vim.exe

So either they're not being created right, or they're
not being recognized properly by cygwin for some reason,
or both.


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