From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Return argv0-symlink.exp early if gdb can't load symlink
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 16:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txabbtdl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533BD0D5.4000408@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 16:56:53 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
>
> Looks native windows symlinks are created on some versions of windows
> with some features turned on, so we can't skip this test by checking
> triplet of host.
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
Creating native symlinks generally require elevation on Windows. So
unless Cygwin somehow managed to work around this (I didn't try, so I
don't know), you will get UAC prompts when you try creating symlinks.
Therefore, I don't recommend to go there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-02 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-02 8:46 Yao Qi
2014-04-02 8:59 ` Yao Qi
2014-04-02 10:47 ` Pedro Alves
2014-04-02 14:06 ` Yao Qi
2014-04-02 16:44 ` Pedro Alves
2014-04-02 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-10 13:19 ` Yao Qi
2014-04-02 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-04-02 16:54 ` Pedro Alves
2014-04-02 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-03 12:12 ` Pedro Alves
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