From 736d658080ed86e688466c76382842b1ef0ef004 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Polyakov Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:01:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL.W32: document trouble with symlinks under MSYS [from HEAD]. PR: 2377 --- INSTALL.W32 | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.40.0