On Son, 2002-12-15 at 16:28, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > Is there a big reason why lndir is not used instead of cp in the build > rules? > > For reasons of disk space alone something along the lines of: > > mkdir $(SOURCE_TREE) > lndir ../../$(SOURCE_TREE)-real $(SOURCE_TREE)/ ifndef > NOT_BUILDING_X_SERVER > # create source tree for static, debuggable XFree86 server > mkdir $(SOURCE_TREE)-xserver-xfree86-dbg > lndir ../../$(SOURCE_TREE)-real $(SOURCE_TREE)-xserver-xfree86-dbg/ > > Seems reasonable, are there any catches that I am missing?
I don't expect there to be, but if there are, cp -la should always work? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
