> Recently you've been proposing (and Bram has accepted) to create a lot
> of new source files to make the existing source easier to understand.
> The notion is laudable but it doesn't work well with my shadow
> directories: every time there is a new .c source (or .h; .pro sources
> are taken care of automatically by virtue of their being in a special
> src/proto directory for which a symlink has ben creted once and for
> all in the shadow directory), I have to manually create a symlink
> newsourcename.c -> ../newsourcename.c in each shadow directory,
> otherwise the "make" step ends in error with "No rule to make
> newsourcename.c. Stop.".
>
> Do you think the following rule (added to the src/Makefile which is
> soft-linked from every shadow directory) could take care of my problem
> without undesired side-effects?
>
> *: ../$@
> ln -sv ../$@
>
> The idea is to create a link if a needed file exist inthe parent (src)
> directory but not in the current (shadow) directory. Maybe the target
> sould be made less general to avoid using this rule out of turn.
What happens with "make foo"? Doesn't it execute "ln -sv ../foo" then?
Or say "../foo" does not exist"? Both are very confusing.
Perhaps we can the "ln" line from "make shadow" and add it with a
"shadowupdate" target:
shadowupdate:
ln -s ../*.[chm] ../*.in ../*.sh ../*.xs ../*.xbm ../gui_gtk_res.xml
../toolcheck ../proto ../libvterm ../vimtutor ../gvimtutor ../install-sh
../Make_all.mak .
Probably reports a lot of error for already existing links.
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