Symbolic links are working for me with RTC-4.0M5 on a Windows 7 64-bit
machine. I'm using RTC-4.0M5 client, which comes with jdk-6, not jdk-7.

Did you install the version of Eclipse that comes with the RTC-4.0M5
Eclipse client, or did you install the RTC-4.0M5 plug-in into your own
Eclipse instance?

Cheers,
Geoff



On 12/14/2011 8:38 AM, sho wrote:

Hello,

I've tried the new symbolic link support for windows 7 in RTC 4.0 M5,
but was not really successful.
I've installed the 4.0m5 eclipse client via web installer on windows 7
professional 64bit. When I now try to load a repository workspace
which contains symbolic links, I get to following error dialog:
Unable to create symbolic link
/Testproject/SimpleLinkRootFile.txt to RootFile.txt because the
underlying platform does not support symbolic
links

And the following error in the workspace/.metadata/.log file:

!MESSAGE Status WARNING:

com.ibm.team.filesystem.client code=0 Problem detected: your

filesystem supports symlinks but you are missing the RTC support for

them null

I googled a bit around and found the following, two year old article
https://jazz.net/library/article/363/ stating I should use JDK 7. And
yes, this was the solution, everything works. But I am not really
happy with this, because we just do not want to use simple eclipse
but a full blown RSA, and I am pretty sure IBM will not support jdk7
for this plattforms.
Also the "New and Noteworthy" or "release notes"
for 4.0m5 do not mention the jdk 7 dependency, so is this a known
"feature" or a special bug to my environment (which is
everything else than special)?