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INSTALL.W32: document trouble with symlinks under MSYS [from HEAD].

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Andy Polyakov 2010-11-23 23:01:22 +00:00
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required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes required. Run the installers and do whatever magic they say it takes
to start MSYS bash shell with GNU tools on its PATH. 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: * Compile OpenSSL:
$ ./config $ ./config