ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink .. ness\bin: not supported by windows

[ivan386]

Version information:

current master

os: Windows XP 64 SP2

Type: Bug

Description:

\go\src\github.com\ipfs\go-ipfs>gx install --global --nofancy
[get ] [fetch]   go-multihash                  QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin ..\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\shar
ness\bin: not supported by windows
retrying fetch QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 after a second...
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin ..\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\shar
ness\bin: not supported by windows
retrying fetch QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 after a second...
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin ..\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\shar
ness\bin: not supported by windows
[err ] [fetch]   go-multihash                  QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 symlink ../bin ..\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnF
wZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\sharness\bin: not supported by windowsERROR: [91 / 91 ] parallel fetch: fai
led to fetch package: QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8: symlink ../bin ..\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6L
LdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\sharness\bin: not supported by windows
ERROR: install deps: failed to fetch dependencies

[djdv]

This is being discussed here: #4956
A patch similar to #4956 will have to be put in place for go-ipfs-api, in order to handle it in gx.

[Kubuxu]

Closing as it is primarily related to gx which was removed in #6038. If there is a need for a separate issue, please open a new one.