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Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp at familiehaase dot de>
- To: soren_andersen at speedymail dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:21:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?
Am 19 Jan 2002 um 23:51 hat Soren Andersen geschrieben:
>My question is: what is Perl going to do when I run an invocation of CPAN?
>Is it going to look in "~/.cpan" and if so, will it play nicely with a
>symlink and transparently find the existing dirs over on the other logical
>volume? Or will it still think that the configuration files are in
>"D:\cygwin\home\sorenboss\.cpan" (/home/sorenboss/.cpan)?
Well, what are the following commands telling you:
$ ls -a ~/
$ ls -a $HOME
$ cd && ls -a
I guess it will list .cpan too and so it will find all in the
place where it should be.
Another question:
>So I did this:
>------------------------------------------------------------
>$ ln -svdnf '/home/sorenboss/.cpan/' ~/.cpan
>create symbolic link `/cdv/e/home/sorenboss/.cpan' to
>`/home/sorenboss/.cpan/'
>------------------------------------------------------------
Why didn't you mount this way:
$ mount -s -b x:/cygwin/home/sorenboss/.cpan \
> e:/home/sorenboss/.cpan
?
I use always mount for something like this.
Gerrit
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