Hi,
when one has a program that does something like
if(strcmp(argv[0], gunzip) == 0)
uncompress();
else
compress();
and this program also uses a libtool library, then the - lets use this
example - just-built gzip file will be around 4 kilobytes only, it is
a libtool wrapper
Eric Blake wrote:
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According to Jan Engelhardt on 7/24/2009 3:25 AM:
Hi,
when one has a program that does something like
if(strcmp(argv[0], gunzip) == 0)
uncompress();
else
compress();
GNU Coding Standards frown on this practice:
On Friday 2009-07-24 13:56, Eric Blake wrote:
when one has a program that does something like
if(strcmp(argv[0], gunzip) == 0)
uncompress();
else
compress();
GNU Coding Standards frown on this practice:
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards.html#User-Interfaces
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
The reason to do symlinking is that some programs are large enough to
warrant not compiling them again or have a double copy of it on the
filesystem. The presence of /usr/bin/dir in system I would consider a
waste of space, even if it's just 100K. Do