On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:58:45PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 28-02-2011 15:27:07 +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 09:00:45PM +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > Create copies instead of symlinks for files needed by libtoolize and
> > > automake, since the target system may not have the files installed in
> >
> > Please, define "target system" ... because properly generated (for
> > example I use "make distcheck") tarball always includes regular
> > files. The symlinks are used for the local copy only.
>
> You're right.
> I develop using a single source tree over NFS between four machines so I
> can test changes quickly. Using symlinks makes it impossible there to
> use the other three system, since they all have autotools installed in
> different locations. This was just a simple convenience fix I have
> applied locally, that is no big deal.
That's why we have $AM_OPTS in the autogen script ;-)
AM_OPTS="--copy --force" ./autogen.sh
will fix your problem with NFS.
Karel
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