[libdispatch-dev] typo on man/Makefile.am

Robert Watson robert at fledge.watson.org
Mon Nov 16 18:05:51 PST 2009


On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Mario Schwalbe wrote:

>> If anyone has ideas about how to do mlinks better with automake, I'm open 
>> to that.  I've noticed that make uninstall doesn't know how to deal with 
>> them using this method, and LN_S doesn't include -f so if you make install 
>> a second time, it fails due to the link.
>
> No, but `$(LN_S) -f' would be nice in the meantime.

It was unclear to me how portable this was; I've gone ahead and committed it 
as r166; perhaps we can find a better solution later if it becomes a problem 
(it would be nice if deinstall removed the symlinks, also).

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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