*“What can EXTRA_DIST_LINKS achieve that AC_CONFIG_LINKS cannot?”*
With AC_CONFIG_LINKS() symlinks are present only in a configured package,
but a developer might want that symlinks are present before launching
configure, or even before launching the bootstrap script.
True about the development s
madmurphy wrote:
P.S. *“If I remember correctly, Autoconf also falls back to hardlinks or
copying the files if the system does not support symbolic links.”*: Same
goes for my patch. I use $(LN_S) for creating the links, and that falls
back to hardlinks when ln -s is not supported.
The differenc
P.S. *“If I remember correctly, Autoconf also falls back to hardlinks or
copying the files if the system does not support symbolic links.”*: Same
goes for my patch. I use $(LN_S) for creating the links, and that falls
back to hardlinks when ln -s is not supported.
--madmurphy
Hi Jacob,
Thank you for your reply. I am aware that symlinks and GNU coding standard
don't go well together, but I believe that there is a difference between
inviting to a standard and force to towards it. I am really convinced that
developers should be left free, and a written warning in a manual
madmurphy wrote:
I have created a patch for Automake to support a new Makefile variable
named EXTRA_DIST_LINKS. The purpose of the variable is that of creating
symlinks for the distributed archive.
The syntax is very simple: a space-separated list of tokens of the form
DEST:SOURCE – it is identi
I apologize, I had forgotten to write rm -rf "$${LNKPART}", for removing
possible existing links. Please find the new patch attached.
--madmurphy
Il giorno lun 31 mag 2021 alle ore 00:34 madmurphy
ha scritto:
> Hi there,
>
> I have created a patch for Automake to support a new Makefile variabl
Hi there,
I have created a patch for Automake to support a new Makefile variable
named EXTRA_DIST_LINKS. The purpose of the variable is that of creating
symlinks for the distributed archive.
The syntax is very simple: a space-separated list of tokens of the form
DEST:SOURCE – it is identical to t
