2011/3/18 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>: > 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 16/03/11 09:55 did gyre and gimble: >> This is necessary as symlinks are not supported on Windows. ?Also use the $(EXEEXT) variable. >> >> As a side effect on POSIX, an absolute symbolic link is now created instead of a relative one. > > NAK. The absolute link cannot include DESTDIR I believe as most > RPMs/packages use DESTDIR to create install routes that ultimately end > up in /. DESTDIR cannot appear in any symbolic links. > > Also relative symlinks are preferred for relocated installs an for > seeing working links when installing in chroots etc. I wasn't sure about it either, that's why I explicitly mentioned it in the commitlog. > Also, (as I've got other issues with this particular patch) can you call > the variable something other than "LINK_PROGRAM" to avoid any confusion > with library linking? SYMLINK_PROGRAM or something (even if it's invalid > on win32) would IMO be less confusing. Sure. New patch up at https://github.com/mkbosmans/pulseaudio/commit/74c934b1ada4c5e7d0efc690dc41d305abc2e58a The hunk is now: +if OS_IS_WIN32 +SYMLINK_PROGRAM=cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) && cp +else +SYMLINK_PROGRAM=ln -sf +endif install-exec-hook: -chown root $(DESTDIR)$(pulselibexecdir)/proximity-helper -chmod u+s $(DESTDIR)$(pulselibexecdir)/proximity-helper - ln -sf pacat $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/parec - ln -sf pacat $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/pamon - ln -sf pacat $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/paplay - ln -sf pacat $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/parecord + $(SYMLINK_PROGRAM) pacat$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/parec$(EXEEXT) + $(SYMLINK_PROGRAM) pacat$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/pamon$(EXEEXT) + $(SYMLINK_PROGRAM) pacat$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/paplay$(EXEEXT) + $(SYMLINK_PROGRAM) pacat$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/parecord$(EXEEXT) rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libpulsedsp.la rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(modlibexecdir)/*.la I rebased the branch, ready for review again at: https://github.com/mkbosmans/pulseaudio/compare/mingw32-build You can pull the branch mingw32-build from git://github.com/mkbosmans/pulseaudio.git Maarten
