Re: Symlinks in Newlib break mingw host builds
Jeff Johnston <[email protected]>
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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 > >