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 X and Ubuntu 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 shortcut" Now on my OS X box, with the current directory set to the project directory, and with that directory also being a part of PATH (although it is not named identically to the Ubuntu one), I type: svn up a And I get: -bash: /source/Autobot/autobotwiki/a: cannot execute binary file ls -l a gives me: -rwxrwxrwx 1 richard admin 55295 26 Apr 10:33 a The same thing happens if I create the link on OS X and try to run it under Ubuntu. So how do I do this? Richard