Re: [Denemo-devel] updated Makefile.am

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 17:20 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 07:29 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > 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.
> Well, this need not be a showstopper - the actual number of bytes
> (compared with everything else) is small...
> >  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 
> That's a good idea. This work of yours ties in with the stuff I've been
> pushing to git on lazy loading of scheme. We want people to be able to
> upgrade a command from a new release or from denemo.org just by right
> clicking on the command. They may be looking at a different part of the
> menu system when they do that, and now it should not matter.

I wrote to the automake mailing list. They asked if it mattered if every
target operating system supported the symlinks or not. They kind of
advised against it. They did not tell me how to do it though. Would this
break things for windows users? 

Jeremiah 




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