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Re: make configure work with symlinked lib/getloadavg.c again


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: make configure work with symlinked lib/getloadavg.c again
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:24:56 +0200

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> coreutils' configure-time test for existence of lib/getloadavg.c
> was failing because that file is now typically a symlink.
>
> Here's how I've fixed it:
>
> 2006-10-12  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
>
>       * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Test for the existence of
>       lib/getloadavg.c using "ls -L", not "test -f".  The latter would
>       fail with a symlink, which is what coreutils' ./bootstrap now
>       creates by default.

Well, something else is up.
I was too hasty.
test -f works just fine, so I've reverted that change.




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