Re: dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 13:47:04 +0100, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> On 04-Nov-2001 Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > In your original mail, the question was what to do about symbolic
> > links like "missing --> /usr/share/automake/missing". The answer is:
> > replace them by the file to which they are linked.
>
> Yes, thanks. I do understand another part of this autoconf
> mess now.
> I thought the autotools might be able to copy files instead of
> making symlinks. But it looks like I have to replace the symlinks
> with files by myself. Do you or does anyone here have a Makefile/sh
> snippet which I might use for this task?
At least automake used to have a switch for that...
[234]% automake --help|grep copy
-c, --copy with -a, copy missing files (default is symlink)
Cheers,
M/
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