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Re: [OMPI devel] GNU Automake 1.14 released
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Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) |
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Re: [OMPI devel] GNU Automake 1.14 released |
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Tue, 3 Sep 2013 22:49:57 +0000 |
On Sep 3, 2013, at 6:45 PM, FabrÃcio Zimmerer Murta <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think autotools has a concept of disallowing symlinks as it seems symlinks
> can't be done in a portable way, and the goal of autotools is making projects
> portable.
>
> Well, if the autotools user feels like using symlinks, then it must be
> expected to break portability wherever you take your autoconfiscated code to.
> A choice to the user. Maybe in the case, as the project is bound to specific
> compilers, it would not be a problem to loose portability a bit more by
> considering symbolic linking around.
Fair enough.
We've been using sym links in the OMPI project for years in order to compile a
series of .c files in 2 different ways. It's portable to all the places that
we need/want it.
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