[Glade-users] autogen.sh makes symlinks of standard files...

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 03:30, JOSE PEDRO SERGIO ROMAO MACHADO wrote:
> Hi there!!!
>
> I'm having a problem with autogen.sh script with my GLADE2 
> projects...
>
> I don't know why, but now when I create a new project with 
> GLADE2, the autogen.sh script when calls automake it 
> doesn't copy Standard Files to my project directory, 
> instead it makes symlinks...
>
> In my oldest projects this doesn't happen...
>
> Does any one knows why is this happening??? I haven't 
> changed any thing in GLADE2 config...
>
> I know that automake, by default, makes symlinks instead 
> of copying the files... but GLADE2 allways made copys, and 
> now is making symlinks...
>
> Here are the 6 symlinks:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> COPYING -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/COPYING
> depcomp -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/depcomp
> INSTALL -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/INSTALL
> install-sh -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/install-sh
> missing -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/missing
> mkinstalldirs -> /usr/share/automake-1.6/mkinstalldirs
> ------------------------------------------------------------

That is the normal way automake works now.

I think you can pass the '-c' option to make it copy the files instead
of using symlinks. You could change the autogen.sh script to do that.

Damon