On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > I've restored that magic link. > > It fell to ab attempt to stop creating a now unneeded magic link in the > source part of the tree. I won't try to re-fix that before release.
That code *used to* create magic links in the source tree, but I changed it to put them in the build tree instead. Thus, it's working as intended, and isn't a "fix later" issue. Since it doesn't create the source-tree links any more, it also doesn't remove them. If you saw them, they may have been leftovers from an earlier run. Remember, "git clean -dxf" is your friend. :-) That seemed like a sufficiently minor issue that it wasn't worth leavling the rmoval code in place for a while. Maybe that was the wrong choice. The details of how it makes the symlinks could be improved. Although waf has a feature for creating symlinks, it only works at install time. It has no built-in mechanism to create them at build time. There's probably a way to make a custom builder that provides the missing capability, which could then be used instead of the post-build hook, but that's something for later. Fred Wright _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
