[Vm-dev] Can we avoid using symlinks?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 10:39:02 UTC 2013


On 9 July 2013 09:55, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Because there is no way to represent them on windows:
>
> tar -xzf cog.tar.gz
> tar: cog/nscogbuild/cygwinbuild/installer/onebuild: Cannot create
> symlink to `/Users/eliot/Newspeak/closurevm/onebuild/': No such file
> or directory
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Surely you should be using the right tarball for the platform?
cogwin.zip, in this case.

frank

> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.


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