On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Reini Urban wrote: > Will Coleda schrieb: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We could thing of symlinking it to runtime/parrot/library > > > at make languages, so language_interop can be tested. > > > > Are symlinks usable wherever we might install? > > True, there's no perl -MExtUtils::Command -e ln_s > But we have LN_S = @lns@
But that's not necessarily a symbolic link. It was originally intended only for use with files, not directories. If symlinks aren't available on Unix, it falls back to a plain 'ln'. On Win32 versions of perl, lns is usually defined as 'copy'. So the short answer is that, at the moment, without additional Configure.pl work, you can't assume $Config{lns} can be used to make symbolic links for directories. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]