Hi Pádraig, On 3/9/23 21:38, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 09/03/2023 16:31, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm working on the Linux man-pages Makefile, so that users can select >> if they want their link manual pages (e.g., sprintf(3), which is just >> a link to printf(3)) as symlinks or .so files (not shared objects, but >> roff(7) files with a .so request; similar to C's #include). Until now, >> we only provided them as .so files, but many systems want their pages >> as symlinks, so I'm trying to make it easy for them. >> >> That should be easy: build the symlinks, and then install them. >> However, that seems to be incompatible with install(1), which I've >> been using until now. It can't install a symlink --it follows it, and >> copies the real file--. Would it make sense to you to add some flag(s) >> to do something similar to what cp(1) can do? Otherwise, I should >> replace install(1) with cp(1) + chmod(1), but I would prefer to use >> install(1) in the Makefile, I think. > > There was a previous proposal to support --preserve,
Did that proposal include a patch, or should I write one? > which would support this with --preserve=links. > It's not a very requested feature though, > but also not that invasive to implement. Cheers, Alex > > cheers, > Pádraig -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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