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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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).