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Document Win32 symlink behaviour; adjust tests to take it into a/c. src/ChangeLog addition: 2008-05-21 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * fileio.c (Fmake_symbolic_link): Document behaviour when the underlying OS doesn't support symbolic links. tests/ChangeLog addition: 2008-05-21 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * automated/mule-tests.el (featurep): Make sure that working symlinks are available before testing their functionality. Also, don't bomb out on deleting the other temporary files if deleting the first threw an error.
author Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>
date Wed, 21 May 2008 16:55:14 +0200
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1 This directory contains the source for the setup program for the XEmacs
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4 For commentary on how to do a release please see `package-net.el'
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6 This code has been adapted from the cygwin net release installer. In
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7 particular note that the cygwin net release installer is actively
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8 maintained and therefore we will want to incorporate improvements from
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9 that. I have therefore tried to use the cygwin way wherever
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10 possible. I have however cleaned up the code somewhat so that there
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11 are not billions of warnings.
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13 This program should get built as part of the standard XEmacs
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14 make. Note however that if you use trhe cygwin build you will need a
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15 NON CYGWIN VERSION OF ZLIB.
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