Subject: Re: [boost] Git hardlinks, and developing
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-04 17:58:42
On 5/12/2013 11:13, Quoth Edward Diener:
> 1) Symbolic links work for Windows Vista and higher if the user has
> administrative priveleges.
> 2) Junctions are a form of symbolic links for directories that cannot
> span network paths, which will not be a problem for modular boost
> organization. Junctions work on all versions of Windows from Windows
> 2000 on up and do not require any special priveleges.
I commonly build boost from a shared network drive. I would be
surprised if this supported either option.
(This is at "boost user with tarball" level though, not "boost developer
with git", so I don't know if that's affected by this issue.)