[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Makefile.rules: [PR13921] Use hard link to create clang++.exe for --host=mingw32.

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Wed Sep 26 01:05:31 PDT 2012


>   - NTFS' Hard links behave like Posix, w/o any privileges.
>   - ln(1) creates actual hard link, like Windows' mklink.exe /H.
>   - tar(1) can extract hard links.
On mingw / msys tar just copies file instead of doing links. So "ln
-s" is effectively "cp"

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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