[Vm-dev] Can we avoid using symlinks?

[Igor Stasenko]

On 9 July 2013 23:47, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> AFAIK, we do not use those scripts for build the VM  (ofc, Eliot use them. I mean in the current process with CMakeMaker)
> What I'm missing?
>
i don't know, but somehow this symlink got into the sources.


> Esteban
>
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9 July 2013 12:39, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't solves the problem.
>> The symlink is still there is sources. And that means you cannot
>> have/use same sources for all platforms.
>>
>>
>>> frank
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Igor Stasenko.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko.
>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.