Re: [Denemo-devel] updated Makefile.am

[Jeremiah Benham]

> Perhaps you should look again at the problem, this time sticking to
> links which are relative paths? 

Ok. I am still looking into this. Checkpitches now links like this:

 CheckPitches -> ../../MainMenu/EntryMenu/MIDI/CheckPitches

I copied actions into another folder using cp -a. It preserves the link.
When I put this same command as a dist-hook in Makefile.am like this:

dist-hook:
cp -a $(srcdir)/actions $(distdir)

It is turning the link into a copy. I am not sure why it is doing this.
I would think that this would do it. I am going to write to the automake
mailing list because if that does not work for us I don't know what I
need to do. 

Jeremiah 

> I'm sure there is stuff to do installing
> a directory system complete with relative-path symbolic links in the
> simplest imaginable manner, as it must be a very common requirement and
> is conceptually very simple. (By contrast, if you have been
> experimenting with symbolic links that refer to absolute file locations,
> then you wouldn't expect to find support - it would involve lopping off
> the head of the path and putting on a new one, as well as working out
> where to lop the head of at).
> 
> Richard
> 
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