From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T05:54:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Compilation Madness



On 3 Jan 2008, at 16:37, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> BTW, as far as broken symlinks go there is a pure ruby implementation
> of tar (somewhere on rubyforge) which could be used to extract the
> symlinks any way deemed appropriate. Or the standard tar patched to
> extract them. Directories symlinked so that stuff appears in multiple
> places could be a problem, though.
>
> And there is probably symlink support Vista if somebody wants to jump
> that bandwagon.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524

Sadly, the links in question are file links (so junctions are out),  
and more than 32 of them (so vista symlinks are out), so any linking  
implementations on win32 are still no good.

Copy will work more persistently :-)

Thanks for the suggestions though.