We all would *very* much like to change the build system as you suggest but,
for reasons I cannot go into here, that is not a feasible option.
I just need to know what problems we should anticipate by using dual links
within CVS.
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Subject: Re: Linked Files in the Repository
[ On Wednesday, July 12, 2000 at 15:42:45 (-0700), Eric Chamberlain wrote: ]
> Subject: Linked Files in the Repository
>
> We have a cross-platform (Mac/Win) situation here. We have common files
> between the two systems but they need to have different file suffixes on
the
> two machines (!). Is it safe to simply create links in the repository for
> the common files?
>
> In other words, we might want one platform to call a given file foofoo.cxx
> and the other platform to call the *same* file foofoo.cpp. Can we just
have
> two unix-style links to the same file in the repository? Can you see how
> this would weird out the CVS code in some way?
This is not a problem CVS should even attempt to contemplate. Fix your
build system (or "wrap" it with some script that'll arrange such links
at build time in each workspace as necessary).
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