This simple example illustrate problem with using native symlinks. $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict $ mkdir bld && mkdir source && touch source/srcfile && ln -s ../source/srcfile bld/bldfile $ ls -l bld total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexey None 10 Jun 17 08:29 bldfile -> ce/srcfile /\/\ Instead "source/srcfile" it resolved as "ce/srcfile" This happen if I remove cygdrive folder from Cygwin root and add line to /etc/fstab: none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,noacl,user 0 0 Regards, Alexey. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple