> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 25 Jan 2002 12:48:15 +0100
>
> We aim at releasing 2.53 within the next months. This is also a call
> for people ready to:
>
> - improve the documentation
> - upgrade existing specific macros
> - import into Autoconf wide spread specific macros
I have one gripe about Autoconf 2.5x: its AC_CONFIG_LINKS macro does
the following:
# Make a symlink if possible; otherwise try a hard link.
ln -s $ac_rel_source $ac_dest 2>/dev/null ||
ln $srcdir/$ac_source $ac_dest ||
{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot link $ac_dest to $srcdir/$ac_source" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: cannot link $ac_dest to $srcdir/$ac_source" >&2;}
{ (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
This assumes that either a symlink or a hard link always works. But
on a system that doesn't support symlinks, this will fail if the
source and the build directories are on different filesystems, because
hard links fail in that case.
I think AC_CONFIG_LINKS should try `cp' as the final fallback, if both
`ln -s' and `ln' fail. Perhaps try `cp -p' before a plain `cp'.
TIA
