() Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> () Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:18:45 +0100 If you want to, it's probably easier to use `readlink' than to document the strangeness :-)
Thanks for the tip. Truly, documentation is not so hard, especially when it's incomplete! (The NEWS entry fails to mention that hardlinks fail, too.) Unfortunately, ‘readlink’ is no help for hardlinks. The proper way is to support "make install", and that's real work.