Mark R. wrote: > Hello, > > I've been busy attempting to use WinInstaller LE to create an MSI package > of cygwin so we can automatically deploy a customized build for our > department. This works for the most part, however when I deploy this to a > windows XP machine, all of the symlinks are broken. Ex/ vi doesn't work, > however vim does. > > When I tracked down the problem, it appears that symlinks require the > "system file" attribute to be set. Does anyone know why this is?
Because that's part of how Cygwin recognizes them as symlinks. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
