I think this is more suited for the devel mailing list than the help one.

I'm trying to build R on windows, With Rtools installed, and configure/make
in R-3.0.2 sources folder from a cygwin console.
I am stuck at the moment, because the build process tries create symlinks,
and gcc build fails because the opened files containe the metadata of the
not working symlink, and not the linked file.
The first problematic files is src/extra/xz/alone_decoder.c, pointing to
common/alone_decoder.c, but i guess the following buildt files would have
the same problem.
My configure didn't even detect the symlink cmd off cygwin while performing
the tests, and i even launched configure with --disable-symlinks, but their
creationis attmpted anyways.
Is there any quick way to workaround that? And since it's .c or.h files we
are symlinking here, couldn't we simply do 'eponym' C or h files that do a
C #include to the relative path, which would be more portable than symlinks?

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Olivier BARTHELEMY

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