Albrecht Schlosser wrote:
> This could be done by simply setting the default for our configure 
> option "--with-links" to "--without-links", so that users still can 
> configure their installs to have the symlinks. (Did you know that we had 
> this already ?) ;-)

        Sounds good.

> The question here is: should we also set the default to --without-links 
> in fltk 1.1.10, so that distros will probably do the default install 
> without the header symlinks? Since FLTK 1.1 is now {really|probably} 
> final, this would be our LAST CHANCE to do this and to avoid the 
> problems discussed that old misspelled header names could leak in a 1.3 
> build.
> 
> My vote would be +1,

        Yes, I'm still +1 as well on this.

        With the caveat we should probably provide a *** BIG WARNING ***
        either during configure (+1), or from within fltk-config (+0)
        if we detect any old style links in /usr/include.
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