Re: dist-hook: keeping symlinks

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 00:02 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> > I want to include a directory that has symlinks in it. How do I include
> > this in a tarball? I tried adding this to the Makefile.am
> 
> What is your plan regarding operating systems which do not support 
> symbolic links.  Will your extracted directory tree still work as 
> expected?

actually we have a different build script for other operating system. Is
there anyway to perserve the links or must we do that as an
install-data-hook?

Jeremiah

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