Re: [pooma-dev] [PATCH] Use ln rather than cp for * -> *_APP

[Tarjei Knapstad]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:01, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2003, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:15, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > The following patch reduces diskspace needed for testsuite compile
> > > by a factor of two.
> > >
> > I had thought of suggesting that, but completely forgot. What is the
> > reason for having the *_APP files there at all? Grepping?
> 
> Dont know myself...
> 
> > > Ok?
> > >
> > Almost. I would suggest using soft (symbolic) links instead, i.e. ln -sf
> > instead of ln -f.
> 
> Thought of this, too, but assuming makefiles from users that delete either
> of the variant using symlinks does no longer work for them, using
> hardlinks does. I'd rather drop the damn thing completely...
> 
Well, I guess that's a (minor) point. I would vote for dropping it
completely as I can't see that it makes any sense.

> Anybody still knows why these dups were introduced?
> 
The only reason I can think of is that there may have been some make
rule once upon a time that went through every example/benchmark subdir
and ran the binary with _APP in it's filename, but then what would be
the point in having a binary without the _APP suffix? Maybe new rules
were made that didn't need the _APP suffix, but it was kept for
backwards compatibility, who knows.

Tarjei

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