Re: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread richard Cavell
The link count for autobot and a1 will be 2; each name references the same file on disk. The symbolic link, however, is a pointer to a name. You can replace the file autobot without affecting a2, but if you replace autobot (rm autobot; make autobot) you will find that the connection between auto

Re: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread Ryan Schmidt
or the file, which is probably > operating system dependent (you didn't describe the build process completely). Yes he did: >>> From: richard Cavell >>> Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM >>> To: users@subversion.apache.org >>> Subject: How to create a l

Re: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread David Chapman
(moving top posting to bottom) - Original Message - From: richard Cavell Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu Hi everyone. I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 10.10. The directory in whi

Re: How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread richard Cavell
Further experimentation shows that symbolic links work (ln -s autobot a for the first command). Are hard links supposed to work? Richard - Original Message - From: richard Cavell Sent: 04/26/11 10:36 AM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: How to create a link that works between OS

How to create a link that works between OS X and Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread richard Cavell
Hi everyone. I'm developing a program on Ubuntu 10.10. The directory in which my project lives is part of my PATH. The executable that is built is called 'autobot'. I type: ln autobot a a (And my program runs correctly). svn add a svn propset svn:executable ON a svn ci -m "Create short