On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Janis Johnson wrote: > I've been thinking about that lately, it would be useful for several > kinds of functionality. We'd want effective targets for the language > for using different options and for providing different error/warning > checks for each language. I haven't looked into how to handle it with > DejaGnu, maybe something like gcc.shared and a [symbolic] link to it > called g++.shared; do links work with Subversion?
Whether or not links work with Subversion, they don't in my experience work well with "diff" (it likes to dereference them when comparing two trees, so showing diffs to the same files more than once) and I wouldn't recommend relying on storage of links or other special sorts of files in a particular version control system, so possibly constraining future conversions to other systems. It's quite possible links are also problematic on some supported build systems. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
