Re: automake 1.6.2 and ln -s

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Buening <address@hidden> writes:

 Andreas> Hello!

Hi!

 Andreas> automake uses ln -s for the installation. I've changed
 Andreas> configure.in and Makefile.am so that now $(LN_S) is used
 Andreas> (which means cp -p if ln -s fails)

Thanks for the report.  Unfortunately, Automake uses `ln', not
`ln -s'.  Using `ln -s' here is not a very good idea: the day
automake is erased by a new version (like the automake 1.7
binary), automake-1.6 will be a symlink to this new version...
Besides there are other drawbacks with symlinks using absolute
paths.

I think only `ln' or `cp -p' are ok.  I'll try to do that next
week, unless someone else (you?) do it meanwhile.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz