On 25-Aug-2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
| Could a similar thing be done for building the source as well, in order
| to cut down on the number of include paths? Say the configure stage
| creates a symbolic link in
|
| <build_dir>/include
|
| for every header file?
Do symbolic links work on Windows systems with the Msys shell? I
think ln -s on that system just makes a copy. That might work, but a
copy doesn't really have the same meaning as a symbolic link.
No, there's no equivalent symbolic links under MSYS. "ln -s" is just equivalent to "cp -a", afaik.
Michael.