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config.status links cp fallback
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Kevin Ryde |
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config.status links cp fallback |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:15:17 +1000 |
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A GMP user pointed out that the setups of as_ln_s include a fallback
to "cp" if "ln" fails, but that the same isn't true of config.status
when it sets up the AC_CONFIG_LINKS.
I don't have a set of actual circumstances where there's a problem,
though it would seem that if it's necessary to fall back to a copy in
one spot then very likely it is in both.
I guess AC_CONFIG_LINKS describes itself as creating links, but any
package depending on a link rather than a copy will already fail on a
system where links don't work, so I imagine creating a copy in that
case wouldn't make anything worse.
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