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Date:	Sun, 03 Mar 2002 13:46:50 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Two small patches for the ported Fileutils 4.0
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
[snip]
> > BTW Fileutils 4.1 is not far from alpha. I'm just trying to get the test
> > suite to work with DJGPP 2.03. I'm inclined to give up and just build it
> > with DJGPP CVS, since the test suite relies on symlinks a lot (ugh).
> 
> What does it do that previous versions didn't?

The test suite uses hardlinks and symlinks a lot more in the test suite
scripts and there are a lot more tests for the hardlink and symlink
functionality. So it's pretty painful. :(
 
> Anyway, I don't recommend to distribute a package built with the CVS
> library, it's not tested enough, and its symlink support will make
> Fileutils conflict with all the other applications.

Yes, of course, you're right. But the easier path seems much more attractive.
;)

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]

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