On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 13:47:04 +0100, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > Hello! > > > On 04-Nov-2001 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > In your original mail, the question was what to do about symbolic > > links like "missing --> /usr/share/automake/missing". The answer is: > > replace them by the file to which they are linked. > > Yes, thanks. I do understand another part of this autoconf > mess now. > I thought the autotools might be able to copy files instead of > making symlinks. But it looks like I have to replace the symlinks > with files by myself. Do you or does anyone here have a Makefile/sh > snippet which I might use for this task?
At least automake used to have a switch for that... [234]% automake --help|grep copy -c, --copy with -a, copy missing files (default is symlink) Cheers, M/