git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH/resend] Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"

From
AFAndreas Färber <planche2k@googlemail.com>
Date
Aug 30, 2008, 11:39 UTC
Message-ID
<60597530-B8AC-421E-84DF-BF241CB799C5@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To
<81b0412b0808300308m2d03b94ft8601f02b2fea494e@mail.gmail.com>
Am 30.08.2008 um 12:08 schrieb Alex Riesen:
Show 12 quoted lines
> 2008/8/30 Andreas Färber <planche2k@googlemail.com>:
>> Am 30.08.2008 um 02:20 schrieb Alex Riesen:
>>
>>> Well, as usual, simple fix for a trivial typo caused by existence  
>>> of an
>>> idiotic platform.
>>>
>> Your patch seems to work on Haiku, don't have a MinGW setup to  
>> test. Sorry
>> for the breakage.
>
> What?! Haiku uses stupid file extensions to mark executables?

No, it doesn't. Like BeOS, it uses MIME types stored as BFS attributes as well as the standard POSIX executable bit.

Since no one appeared to have replied yet, I confirmed that your Windows patch does not break things here and looks reasonable to me as co-author of the offending commit.

Andreas
Previous: Alex RiesenNext: Alex Riesen
Message 7 of 8 in “Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"”
  1. Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"Alex Riesen, Aug 28, 2008
  2. Alex RiesenAug 28, 2008
  3. Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"Alex Riesen, Aug 28, 2008
  4. Fix use of hardlinks in "make install"Alex Riesen, Aug 30, 2008
  5. Andreas FärberAug 30, 2008
  6. Alex RiesenAug 30, 2008
  7. Andreas FärberAug 30, 2008
  8. Alex RiesenAug 30, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.