[Ecls-list] ASDF not following symlinks on windows

[Hugo Duncan]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:20:10 -0400, Hugo Duncan <hugo_duncan at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> I just built ecl on windows from git, and ASDF does not seem to be  
> following symlinks.  Truename on a .lnk file returns the .lnk file.

I see now that this is a general windows issue.  For posterity, I "solved"  
this by writing a function to recursively search a list of top level  
directories, and pushing that onto  
asdf:*system-definition-search-functions*.

I also had a go at patching unixfsys.d to make truename follow symlinks.   
I got ecl_min working, but then got errors in building the rest, so I gave  
up.  If anyone is interested in persuing, I could post my changes.  It  
involves IShellLink and OLE.

Hugo
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