'Lo out there -
I ported an RTEMS installation tree (headers, libs, format makefiles, and
a few executables) from Linux to Cygwin32/Win[NT|98], and wanted to burn
the tree onto a CD as a "portable toolbox". The tree has a set of libs
(libstdc++.a...) which are soft-linked from cpu-dependent directories back
to a common lib directory, and Cygwin provides some mechanism to effect
the soft-link. I used 'tar cf - ...' to pass the tree from Linux to
Win[NT|98] with no problems.
Our CD burning program (from NTI -- runs in MSWin), failed to handle the
soft-links correctly: instead of file contents, the 'soft-links' just
contained text identifying themselves as "Softlink" and pointing to the
target directories. Since the content was small (about 30 MBy out of ~250
MBy), I just replaced the soft-links with the respective live files ('tar
chf - ...') and am reburning with that tree, but I have two questions:
1) Does an ISO9660 file system use soft-links, or is this a 'no-no'? (I
ran 'find' on a couple of samples and turned up no links.)
2) Could I have built an ISO image (i.e., in Linux), then expected a
Win[NT|98] CD tool to burn it properly without trying to reformat it? Any
specific recommendations (other than the obvious &;^)?
Thanks for any info - I know zero about this.
John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
TGA Technologies, Inc.
100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
Norcross, GA 30071-3633
e-mail: ">jmills@tga.com
Phone: 770-441-2100 ext.124 (voice)
770-449-7740 (FAX)
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