On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:58:09PM -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:42:04PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Any chance we could change this slightly.. If
> > > ${top_srcdir}/Makefile.am is a symlink, can we follow that symlink and
> > > run from there? This would also allow this process to work in an
> > > "lndir tree".
> >
> > FYI, the reason I'm asking this is because the lndir tree sometimes
> > has dangling symlinks, so running from the REAL source tree is always
> > safer in this case.
>
> Is this unique to `make pot`? IIRC, dangling symlinks cause problems
> for all sorts of build tree operations. I was always bombing and then
> deleting the broken links. That or lndir a new directory and lose all
> the object files. Actually, that's pretty much why I stopped using
> lndir. Oh, I remember. That, and it totally doesn't work with
> programs that backup a file, modify it, and then put it back to undo
> -- they don't restore the links. It meant I couldn't use quilt with
> lndir. I think I couldn't do svn operations from the lndir'd
> directory, too.
`make etags`
Yeah, that was it. Same problems with lndir. If I was going to still
use lndir, I'd write a script to clean the tree of broken links.
-chris
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