automake 1.6.2 and ln -s

[Andreas Buening]

Hello!

automake uses ln -s for the installation. I've changed
configure.in and Makefile.am so that now $(LN_S) is used
(which means cp -p if ln -s fails)

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--- old/automake-1.6.2/configure.in     Fri Jun 14 07:13:54 2002
+++ gnu/automake-1.6.2/configure.in     Thu Jun 20 22:48:22 2002
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 APIVERSION=`echo "$VERSION" | sed -e 
's/^\([[0-9]]*\.[[0-9]]*[[a-z]]*\).*$/\1/'`
 AC_SUBST(APIVERSION)
 
+AC_PROG_LN_S
+
 # A versioned directory, defined here for convenience.
 pkgvdatadir="\${datadir}/automake-${APIVERSION}"
 AC_SUBST(pkgvdatadir)
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--- old/automake-1.6.2/Makefile.am      Mon Jun 10 09:43:28 2002
+++ gnu/automake-1.6.2/Makefile.am      Thu Jun 20 22:50:28 2002
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@
          f="`echo $$p|sed '$(transform)'`"; \
          fv="$$f-$(APIVERSION)"; \
          rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv; \
-         echo " ln $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv"; \
-         ln $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv; \
+         echo " $(LN_S) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv"; \
+         $(LN_S) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$fv; \
        done
 
 uninstall-hook:
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bye,
Andreas