On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:50:32 +0200 (MET DST), Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
wrote:
>Another fun idea would be that configure could find the right perl,
>and then do a
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/share/lyx/thegoodperl
Why not always directly use the absolute pathname instead of using the
link to it?
>
>With this hack, the name thegoodperl in lyx lib directory would always
>point to a working perl. However, this is so complicated that I
>suspect it will not work... (and also OS/2 does not do symlinks).
Well, it depends:
tvfs.ifs and ext2fs.ifs both support symlinks.
And you can always simulate one with configuring a small
script(X:/XFree86/lib/X11/lyx/thegoodperl.cmd):
rem fake link to working perl
X:/usr/local/bin/perl.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 [or whatever]
rem end of script
This would work for those more exotic Unices without symlinks, too.
Greets,
Arnd
