[tex-live] Hi! I don't arrive to build texlive from the source, could you help me?

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Jan 23 14:23:55 CET 2011


On 23 January 2011 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

 > T T wrote:
 > 
 >  > Just to clarify: you can't install Linux (or any other *nix) binaries
 >  > on Windows.  This is not supported.  You can install win32 binaries on
 >  > *nix systems and share that, but not the other way around.
 > 
 > If you were to, what would (or would not) happen, Tomek ?

Could you extract the file http://ms25.ath.cx/testssymlinks.tgz and
tell me what happens with the symlink?  File b is a symlink to the
regular file a.  I suppose that on Windows the symlink is replaced by
an empty file.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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