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

Tue Jan 21 16:01:21 UTC 2003

On 21 Jan 2003, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:

> 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?

Dont know myself...

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

Thought of this, too, but assuming makefiles from users that delete either
of the variant using symlinks does no longer work for them, using
hardlinks does. I'd rather drop the damn thing completely...

Anybody still knows why these dups were introduced?

Richard.

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