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Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:30:15 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-15) |
Hello Jan,
* Jan Engelhardt wrote on Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:57:33PM CEST:
> I might resort to using shell scripts instead of symlinks that
> will use (using original example) `gzip --mode=gunzip`, because
> install(1) does not preserve symlinks across copies either. Gah.
Symlinks below $DESTDIR$prefix are best done with an install-exec-hook
or an install-data-hook, cd to the target's directory, and using $(LN_S)
so that a copy is done on systems that do not provide 'ln -s'.
(This is more or less documented in the Autoconf manual.)
Cheers,
Ralf