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

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 23 January 2011 Martin Schröder wrote:

 > 2011/1/23 Philipp Stephani <st_philipp at yahoo.de>:
 > > NTFS has supported hard links and directory junctions since 1999
 > > and Unix-style symbolic links since 2007.
 > 
 > I'll bite: There's still no build-in support for creating them in
 > Windows 7 in the GUI as of now. And the build-in command line tools
 > for these need fiddeling with user permissions, i,e. they won't work
 > in a default install - as of now. All AFAIK, of course, but I tried it
 > this week.

Things are much more complicated.  We already have to support the more
common case where Windows binaries are hosted on a Unix server.  Even
this was not easy to achieve, but it works fine since TL-2008.

We already thought about the other case, but this is even much more
difficult and certainly not worth the effort.  Installing TeX Live on
a Windows server is quite similar to installing it on a USB stick.
This works already, even for all platforms supported by TeX Live, but
with the restrictions imposed by the stupid FAT32 file system.

BTW, it doesn't matter at all whether symlinks are supported by the
Windows Exploder, the installer and tlmgr are written in Perl.

After all, Phil didn't ask for new features, he just asked *why* it
isn't supported.  Missing support for symlinks is only one reason,
file permissions is another one, and there are many more.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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