Re: Symlinks in Newlib break mingw host builds

Jeff Johnston <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <CAOox84uZpdptHh8BXNxuJhK_d1pL64NGKgGJ_x-77nKx+yLNcg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:16 AM Joel Sherrill <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The following patch in newlib adds links as part of the i386/x86_64 fenv
> support. Windows does not have symlinks and it is emulated as copy.
> This complicates a bsdtar extraction of source.
>
>  https://github.com/RTEMS/sourceware-mirror-newlib-
>  cygwin/commit/cfc4955234828881145a20987c8a0a3cd373585c
>
>  We tried to extract the tar file a second time, this has worked with
> other tar files with symlinks however it does not work. We don't know why.
>
> My current best idea is to replace all the symlinks in those libm
> directories
> with a short file that includes the file instead of symlinking to it.
>

Sounds fine.  Please go ahead.


> Any other thoughts to eliminate the symlinks since they cause issues.
>
> --joel
>
>
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