RE: [pooma-dev] [PATCH] Use ln rather than cp for * -> *_APP

[James Crotinger]

Beats me. The entire original Build setup was taken wholesale from the Blanca project as they liked it better than the POOMA r1 build system. Perhaps Julian understood what all this stuff was for, but I never did. :)

        Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Tarjei Knapstad [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:54 AM
To: Pooma-dev
Subject: Re: [pooma-dev] [PATCH] Use ln rather than cp for * -> *_APP

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:15, Richard Guenther wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The following patch reduces diskspace needed for testsuite compile
> by a factor of two.
>
I had thought of suggesting that, but completely forgot. What is the
reason for having the *_APP files there at all? Grepping?

> Ok?
>
Almost. I would suggest using soft (symbolic) links instead, i.e. ln -sf
instead of ln -f.

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Tarjei