On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 4:57 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Ashwin Agrawal <aagra...@pivotal.io> writes: > > In general, the variable LN_S is 'ln -s', however, LN_S changes to 'cp > > -pR' if configure finds the file system does not support symbolic > > links. > > I was playing with 'ln' for some other reason where I symbolic linked > > it to '/bin/false'. That revealed the failure for > > src/backend/Makefile. Greping for 'ln -s' revealed three places it's > > used. Attaching the patch to fix the same. > > Hm. So, these oversights are certainly bugs in narrow terms. However, > they've all been like that for a *long* time --- the three instances > you found date to 2005, 2006, and 2008 according to "git blame". > The complete lack of complaints shows that nobody cares. So I think > a fairly strong case could be made for going the other way, ie > s/$(LN_S)/ln -s/g and get rid of the configure-time cycles wasted in > setting up that variable. >
I accede to it.
