Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: >> (2) There seems to be a difference in how symlinks and hardlinks are >> handled in the install step. >> >> Running "make prefix=$PWD/dist install" ends up with real files in >> dist/bin/ (hardlinks) whereas with Meson all of the files in the bin/ >> directory are symlinks into ../libexec/. > > Yup, that's documented as part of the commit message that introduces > Meson as one of the main differences. Is there a way to disable that? These symbolic-links pretending to be installed files are quite annoying---when the target file is lost, the links become useless.
