From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: autoconf v2.12 -- Bug in AC_PROG_LN_S?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 22:37:59 GMT
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The autoconf macro AC_PROG_LN_S, which is found in file
$DJDIR/share/autoconf/acspecific.m4, is defined such that "yes" is the
answer for DJGPP, when in fact "ln -s" only works for executables, as
we all know.

In trying to port the Midnight Commander sources, there are a couple
of places where it unconditionally uses the results of the
AC_PROG_LN_S macro to try to make symlinks to libraries (*.a files),
which of course does not work under DJGPP.

Shouldn't this test be configured to produce "no" under DJGPP, so that
the value for the "LN_S" variable is "ln" rather than "ln -s"?

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