Hi Paul,
The fact that coreutils' bootstrap script creates symlinks can be an
annoyance:
- Creating self-contained tarballs requires extra effort.
- On my systems, I have a date as part of the gnulib directory name,
and rename it each time I update. In such a situation, the symlinks
break often.
Would you mind adding a --copy option to the bootstrap script? Roughly
like this?
Bruno
*** bootstrap.bak 2006-10-08 14:18:02.000000000 +0200
--- bootstrap 2006-10-08 14:21:50.000000000 +0200
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*** 40,45 ****
--- 40,46 ----
have gnulib sources on your machine, and
do not want to waste your bandwidth dowloading
them again.
+ --copy Copy files instead of creating symbolic links.
--force Bootstrap even if the sources didn't come from CVS.
--skip-po Do not download po files.
--cvs-user=USERNAME Set the CVS username to be used when accessing
***************
*** 112,117 ****
--- 113,121 ----
# the distributed version.
CVS_only_file=CVS
+ # Whether to try symlinks before attempting a plain copy.
+ try_ln_s=:
+
# Override the default configuration, if necessary.
test -r bootstrap.conf && . ./bootstrap.conf
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*** 133,138 ****
--- 137,144 ----
SKIP_PO=t;;
--force)
CVS_only_file=;;
+ --copy)
+ try_ln_s=false;;
*)
echo >&2 "$0: $option: unknown option"
exit 1;;
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*** 300,307 ****
src_ls=`ls -diL "$src" 2>/dev/null` && set $src_ls && src_i=$1 &&
dst_ls=`ls -diL "$dst" 2>/dev/null` && set $dst_ls && dst_i=$1 &&
test "$src_i" = "$dst_i" || {
! echo "$0: ln -fs $reldir $dst" &&
! ln -fs "$reldir" "$dst"
}
}
}
--- 306,318 ----
src_ls=`ls -diL "$src" 2>/dev/null` && set $src_ls && src_i=$1 &&
dst_ls=`ls -diL "$dst" 2>/dev/null` && set $dst_ls && dst_i=$1 &&
test "$src_i" = "$dst_i" || {
! ( $try_ln_s &&
! ln -fs "$reldir" "$dst" &&
! echo "$0: ln -fs $reldir $dst"
! ) 2>/dev/null ||
! { echo "$0: cp -f $src $dst"
! cp -f "$src" "$dst"
! }
}
}
}
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