On Mi, 28 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > 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.
using -f should force (re-creation) of the link and should not error.
Best,
Christian
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