GNU bug report logs - #10441
The testsuite assumes that ln -s really creates a symlink

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Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>

Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 22:17:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>
To: bug-automake <at> gnu.org
Subject: The testsuite assumes that ln -s really creates a symlink
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:13:22 +0100

Hi!

"ln -s" on MSYS does not create a symlink, instead it makes a
regular copy.  Lots of test cases (on master) FAIL due to this.

"test -h foo" will simply not return success on MSYS, ever.

Affected tests (that I have noticed):
add-missing.tap (lots of failing test cases)
copy.test

Cheers,
Peter
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