Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:10:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: autoconf v2.12 -- Bug in AC_PROG_LN_S?
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> 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"?

Unfortunately, this cannot be decided at configure time, because it is 
not known whether the results will be used to create symlinks to 
executables or to regular files.  If the former, you will want symlinks 
to be used, but if the latter, you won't.  So the way to resolve this 
depends on the package you are porting.

This is another one of those subtle points you need to consider when 
portin to DJGPP.