Re: Small suggestion on build script

Dann Corbit wrote:
> The response from the Mingw team:
> >Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
>
> Date: 2004-04-08 07:33
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> Symbolic links to files and directories do not work on Win32
> in general. Support for symlink operation is limited to the source
> directory or file existing and being able to copy the source to the
> destination.
>
> You will need to modify the package to do the appropriate
> thing for the environment.

This is not something we should have to solve locally. Autoconf is
supposed to do the right thing on platforms that don't support
symlinks. I know Earnie Boyd has been doing a lot of work to get
autoconfiscated packages to build smoothly on MinGW. Maybe you could
try a later Autoconf version or convince the MinGW people to improve
Autoconf?

Then again, I still hear that the failures occur "randomly", which
deserves a different kind of investigation.