I am currently writing a program that uses automake and I would like to create symlinks when the program is installed. Much like the way busybox or git creates many symlinks that point to one binary, I would like to do the same.
Is there a correct way to do this? I tried the following: install-exec-hook: $(LN_S) -f foo $(bindir)/bar $(LN_S) -f foo $(bindir)/baz But a "make distcheck" fails with the following: ln -s -f foo /home/jon/devel/foor/foo-0.1.0/_inst/bin/bar ln: cannot remove `/home/jon/devel/foo/foo-0.1.0/_inst/bin/bar': Permission denied make[3]: *** [install-exec-hook] Error 1 Any advice on how to do this? Regards, Jon