[Patch #40] Use ln -sf when installing library links

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Patch #40 has been updated. 

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Status: Open
Summary: Use ln -sf when installing library links

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Date: 2001-Oct-18 17:02
By: manta

Comment:
This patch detects support for the -f flag to the ln program, and, if available 
uses it when installing the links for libraries instead of rm -f'ing the 
original link.

This is important for our application, because we put our libraries on NFS 
mounts, and programs that use them are constantly starting up on many different 
machines.  Therefore, if we can make the period of time when there is no 
libfoo.so.# link as short as possible, the likelihood
of any program being started and not being able to find its library is 
minimized.


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Date: 2001-Oct-19 09:55
By: manta

Comment:
Version 2 of this patch renames the autoconf cache variable to 
'lt_cv_prog_LN_SF', instead of 'ac_cv_prog_LN_SF'.

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Date: 2001-Nov-29 09:41
By: rboehne

Comment:
What version is this for?
I don't think it is wise or necessary to call the new
macro in configure.in/ac.  Since Libtool is going to
use the result the macro must be called by AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
and not elsewhere.

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