John Tytgat wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Peter Naulls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> John, do you think that create-srcdir, in the case of UnixLib sources at >> least, create symlinks to the SVNed source instead of copying the actual >> files. This is just a simple flag change to the copy operation of >> course. >> >> This'd make it easier to make changes to the UnixLib sources instead of >> maintaining two copies and manually copying to check things. > > he, it's a bit of a coincidence but I had such a change in one of my > snapshots and tried that out for some time (those where hardlinks btw). > The problem is that some editors I used overwrote the hardlink which made > it very confusing why some changes didn't end up at recipe/files/libunixlib. > > I just happen to have reverted that local change after dismissing this as a > possible improvement. Or do you know a way to overcome that problem ?
Yes, use symlinks ;-) This will do the right thing in almost all cases. Certainly I've edited symlinked files under a wide variety of Unix editors, and also via SunFish, with no obvious detriment. _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
