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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:24:38 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: David Aguilar , Taylor Blau , git@vger.kernel.org, Eli Schwartz , Eric Sunshine , Phillip Wood , Ramsay Jones , Jeff King Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 00/19] Modernize the build system In-Reply-To: (Patrick Steinhardt's message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:29:17 +0100") References: Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:24:37 +0900 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Patrick Steinhardt writes: >> (2) There seems to be a difference in how symlinks and hardlinks are >> handled in the install step. >> >> Running "make prefix=$PWD/dist install" ends up with real files in >> dist/bin/ (hardlinks) whereas with Meson all of the files in the bin/ >> directory are symlinks into ../libexec/. > > Yup, that's documented as part of the commit message that introduces > Meson as one of the main differences. Is there a way to disable that? These symbolic-links pretending to be installed files are quite annoying---when the target file is lost, the links become useless.