Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:41:19 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: autoconf v2.12 -- Bug in AC_PROG_LN_S?
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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> Yes but there is enough situations where configure scripts does 
> wrong things due to this problem. Then only remaining thing is to
> browsing configure script and trying to fool it with some 
> environment variables.

Yep, that's right.  I even saw packages (TeX) that use `ln -s' to link
both executables *and* regular files (e.g., during "make install").  I
needed to change the configure script so that it edited Makefile.in, to
get it right.