[pooma-dev] [PATCH] Use ln rather than cp for * -> *_APP

Tarjei Knapstad tarjeik at chemcon.no
Tue Jan 21 15:54:24 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:15, Richard Guenther wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The following patch reduces diskspace needed for testsuite compile
> by a factor of two.
> 
I had thought of suggesting that, but completely forgot. What is the
reason for having the *_APP files there at all? Grepping?

> Ok?
> 
Almost. I would suggest using soft (symbolic) links instead, i.e. ln -sf
instead of ln -f.

<snip>

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Tarjei
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