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Date: | Tue, 16 May 2000 16:46:51 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net> |
cc: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Fw: DJGPP config changes part 1 of 2 |
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On Tue, 16 May 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > "Mark E." wrote: > > # on DJGPP the 'ln -s' does not work correctly > > LN = cp -p > > This is isn't covered by your patch, but I've noticed it there - why > not to check for 'ln -s' with configure script, because it may change? Because the test for "ln -s" is unreliable: it fails on plain DOS, but seems to ``work'' on Windows 9X. Since we have GNU `cp', we might as well use "cp -p" unconditionally (provided that it is only during the build process; inside "make install" is another matter).
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