On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:10:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:21:04PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 04:14:04PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Ok. Given that 'cp' was an acceptable fallback in the original version > >>of the above script, I wonder why 'cp' wasn't used instead of creating > >>a shell script wrapper. > > > >Because it is desirable to leave the tools where they were: > > Except that "cp" is already used as a fallback for when "ln" doesn't > work. If the tool is likely not to work after a "cp" then shouldn't the > fallback condition be to always create a shell script (or .bat file)?
That's basically what it does now; the only case which uses ln || cp is for tools in the build directory, in which case they obviously are not in their install location. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC
