On 12/24/2013 07:23 PM, Bjørn Roald wrote:
On 12/25/2013 12:55 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:
AMDG
On 12/24/2013 02:15 PM, Bjørn Roald wrote:
On 12/24/2013 10:49 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
No special target is needed. If you're running as an administrator, Boost.Build will detect that it can create symlinks.
I assume that you mean that you plan to make it work this way. That would be great. When I first ran '.\b2 headers' under Windows 7 I had administrator rights but it still created hard links.
He did not say it works that way now.
It is what I meant. It worked for me the last time I tried it.
OK I guess you did not say what I read then :-)
I am not sure what you tested, but I am pretty sure Edward refer to using symbolic links for individual files rather than hard links. Not symbolic links for directories where that can be used. The latter work as it should.
You are correct. When I tried it under Windows7, even with administrative rights, the symbolic links for directories were implemented but for individual files I ended up with hard links. Subsequently after doing a 'git pull' and 'git submodule update' from the superproject I tried '.\b2 headers' again with the same result. So unless it has been changed fairly recently '.\b2 headers' doe not create symbolic links for individual files.