> The caveat still stands, however, since the onus remains on the 
developer to
> ensure that a Makefile macro derived from autoconf's `LN_S' output 
variable
> is used in place of the `ln -s' command, in *every* rule which could 
result
> in the creation of a symbolic link.

I should also have noted that groff's autoconfigury already provides the
necessary `LN_S' Makefile macro.  Symlink avoidance is as simple as 
writing

  $(LN_S) file1 file2

instead of

  ln -s file1 file2

in any rule where that might be appropriate.

Regards,
Keith.


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