On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Reini Urban wrote:
> Will Coleda schrieb:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at> wrote:
> > > We could thing of symlinking it to runtime/parrot/library
> > > at make languages, so language_interop can be tested.
> >
> > Are symlinks usable wherever we might install?
>
> True, there's no perl -MExtUtils::Command -e ln_s
> But we have LN_S = @lns@
But that's not necessarily a symbolic link. It was originally intended
only for use with files, not directories. If symlinks aren't available on
Unix, it falls back to a plain 'ln'. On Win32 versions of perl, lns is
usually defined as 'copy'.
So the short answer is that, at the moment, without additional
Configure.pl work, you can't assume $Config{lns} can be used to make
symbolic links for directories.
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Andy Dougherty doughera@lafayette.edu
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