On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:45 PM, FabrÃcio Zimmerer Murta <fabri...@familiamurta.org> wrote:
> I think autotools has a concept of disallowing symlinks as it seems symlinks > can't be done in a portable way, and the goal of autotools is making projects > portable. > > Well, if the autotools user feels like using symlinks, then it must be > expected to break portability wherever you take your autoconfiscated code to. > A choice to the user. Maybe in the case, as the project is bound to specific > compilers, it would not be a problem to loose portability a bit more by > considering symbolic linking around. Fair enough. We've been using sym links in the OMPI project for years in order to compile a series of .c files in 2 different ways. It's portable to all the places that we need/want it. -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
