On 02/02/2012 12:41 AM, Earl Chew wrote:
Some environments don't support symbolic links :-(


If ln -s is not supported, configure can figure it out, and as a last resort 
uses:

LN_S = cp -p

I've found two problems with this.

The first problem is that LN_S is not propagated past the top-level Makefile. 
This
can manifest as strange GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES messages:

        Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES

The patch (against an older gcc 4.2.4) addresses this first problem.


The second is that:

        cp -p $1 $2  mimics  ln -s $1 $2

only if $1 is an absolute path, or $2 does not contain any path separators.
This is not always true. For example:

gcc/gcc/config/t-slibgcc-elf-ver:       $(LN_S) $(SHLIB_SONAME) 
$(SHLIB_DIR)/$(SHLIB_SOLINK)

There doesn't seem to be any straightforward way around this
except diligence:

        cd $(SHLIB_DIR)&&  $(LN_S) $(SHLIB_SONAME) $(SHLIB_SOLINK)

Additionally building in directory libada requires symlinking directories, so 'cp -p' in not enough. I have tried to use there
'cp -pR' instead.

Andris

PS. I have not tested with 4.7 yet, but with 4.6 it was so

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