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author | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2010-11-23 23:01:01 +0000 |
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committer | Andy Polyakov <appro@openssl.org> | 2010-11-23 23:01:01 +0000 |
commit | 0d6f7dbb506379643e4ec227ee9c3ae35ff4aef8 (patch) | |
tree | ea1fa273131f96cd470467d5923817e048a11769 /INSTALL.W32 | |
parent | 994a1ea900850ab480726eb0d1cdbe9a573213bc (diff) |
INSTALL.W32: document trouble with symlinks under MSYS [from HEAD].
PR: 2377
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.W32')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.W32 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.W32 b/INSTALL.W32 index a0886b3d77..d23c4baf62 100644 --- a/INSTALL.W32 +++ b/INSTALL.W32 @@ -185,6 +185,15 @@ required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH. + N.B. Since source tar-ball can contain symbolic links, it's essential + that you use accompanying MSYS tar to unpack the source. It will + either handle them in one way or another or fail to extract them, + which does the trick too. Latter means that you may safely ignore all + "cannot create symlink" messages, as they will be "re-created" at + configure stage by copying corresponding files. Alternative programs + were observed to create empty files instead, which results in build + failure. + * Compile OpenSSL: $ ./config |