[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1187917 ] ln bug with many targets

Bugs item #1187917, was opened at 2005-04-22 01:40
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Category: MSYS
>Group: Aged issue
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Out of Date
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: yyk (yykav)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: ln bug with many targets

Initial Comment:
MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe

$ ln --version
ln (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

ln gettext.o link.sh Makefile i18n.lisp i18n.xml
preload.lisp ../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory
ln: `../clisp-2.33.83/i18n/': cannot overwrite directory


With one target - all right

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>Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2013-01-11 10:44

Message:
If we still have problems please open a new issue.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2005-04-25 15:34

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I'll take a look.  This ln is modified to fit the no symlink
model.  Hardlinks are somewhat available but only on NTFS
and only for files and not directories.  The fix for this
may be just to copy the files to the directory.

Earnie.

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