Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes, that's what we need: to change make-symbolic-link so that only
> its native part is ifdef'ed away on systems without S_IFLNK, and the
> file-handler part is available on all systems.

The appended patch (towards the trunk) shall do the job. I have no build
environment for W32; could somebody, please, test it there?

Best regards, Michael.


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*** fileio.c.~1.609.~	2008-03-29 20:27:38.000000000 +0100
--- fileio.c	2008-04-03 21:37:26.000000000 +0200
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*** 2878,2884 ****
    return Qnil;
  }
  
- #ifdef S_IFLNK
  DEFUN ("make-symbolic-link", Fmake_symbolic_link, Smake_symbolic_link, 2, 3,
         "FMake symbolic link to file: \nGMake symbolic link to file %s: \np",
         doc: /* Make a symbolic link to FILENAME, named LINKNAME.
--- 2878,2883 ----
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*** 2923,2928 ****
--- 2922,2928 ----
      RETURN_UNGCPRO (call4 (handler, Qmake_symbolic_link, filename,
  			   linkname, ok_if_already_exists));
  
+ #ifdef S_IFLNK
    encoded_filename = ENCODE_FILE (filename);
    encoded_linkname = ENCODE_FILE (linkname);
  
***************
*** 2949,2956 ****
      }
    UNGCPRO;
    return Qnil;
! }
  #endif /* S_IFLNK */
  
  #ifdef VMS
  
--- 2949,2961 ----
      }
    UNGCPRO;
    return Qnil;
! 
! #else
!   UNGCPRO;
!   xsignal1 (Qfile_error, build_string ("Symbolic links are not supported"));
! 
  #endif /* S_IFLNK */
+ }
  
  #ifdef VMS
  
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*** 6766,6774 ****
    defsubr (&Sdelete_file);
    defsubr (&Srename_file);
    defsubr (&Sadd_name_to_file);
- #ifdef S_IFLNK
    defsubr (&Smake_symbolic_link);
- #endif /* S_IFLNK */
  #ifdef VMS
    defsubr (&Sdefine_logical_name);
  #endif /* VMS */
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