On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:38:59PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 03:46:05AM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin > wrote: > > Use hardlinks instead of symlinks when copying build tree for debugging > > server build in build-server target (thanks, David Schmitt). > > I had symlinks for a reason: the Hurd guys can't have disks above 1.4GB > or whatever it is, so they can't, obviously, have XFree86 on a single > disk. That's why there's symlinks, so you can do cross-device trees. > > Yes, it's nasty and crap (just like the rest of the Hurd ;), but what > can you do?
Well, you didn't exactly *have* symlinks. That changeset simply brought the build-server rule into sync with the build rule. In other words, hard links were already being used in most builds anyway. Even on the Hurd. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an [EMAIL PROTECTED] | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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