Re: [Help-smalltalk] Build 3.0 on mingw/msys

[Paolo Bonzini]

> But am now getting a failure when running gst-tool gst-package:
> ./gst-tool gst-package --kernel-dir="/c/dev/mingw/smalltalk-3.0/kernel" 
> --image="/c/dev/mingw/smalltalk-3.0/gst.im" --srcdir=. 
> --target-directory=. packages/browser/package.xml
> mkdir "C:\DOCUME~1\paulb\LOCALS~1\Temp\gstar-DOSSUZ"
> mkdir "C:\DOCUME~1\paulb\LOCALS~1\Temp\gstar-DOSSUZ\Browser"
> cp -p -f "c:\dev\mingw\smalltalk-3.0\packages\browser\BrowShell.st" 
> C:\DOCUME~1\
> paulb\LOCALS~1\Temp\gstar-DOSSUZ\Browser\BrowShell.st
> gst-package: Operation not permitted
>
> The problem is that msys shell does not recognise the DOS-style target 
> path in the 'cp' command: the path needs to be in quotes as the source 
> path is.  I cannot find where the source for this command is.

It is a "fake" command, it is only shown by scripts/Package.st to show 
what's going on.  The paths are given to CopyFile, more or less.  You 
can put debugging code in lib-src/symlink.c.

Paolo