Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names

[Ralf Wildenhues]

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