From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Links emacs -> emacs-NN.MM.KK
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:42:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5sli8vsax1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83txnjcxhw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 06 Apr 2013 21:41:47 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why do we create a hard link emacs -> emacs.NN.MM.KK when dumping in
> the src directory, but a symbolic link in "make install"? Why the
> difference?
We use a symlink when installing if configure says they are supported.
It just seems like the right thing to do in that case (makes it more
obvious what is going on, people in the past have been confused about
why bin/emacs was getting "installed twice", etc).
It's a relatively recent change to do so rather than use a hard link.
Either I forgot to consider src/Makefile at that time, or decided it
wasn't worth bothering to change that part, or decided there was some
reason not to. Such a reason would be if we delete one end of the link
and still expect the other to work. I'm afraid I don't remember which of
these explanations applies, sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-06 19:42 UTC|newest]
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2013-04-06 18:41 Links emacs -> emacs-NN.MM.KK Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-06 19:42 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2013-04-07 2:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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