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Re: How to build a source tarball that includes symbolic links?



On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
> As a *temporary* workaround could you use hard links instead of
> symbolic?  You'd have to link every file individually though, hard links
> aren't supported for directories.

Not really, as that would not be recognized by our version control system (Git).

As a *really temporary* workaround, is there a way I could have the
build system copy over the files to their proper locations, just for
building the package? And then delete them and reinstate the symbolic
links?

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