Re: Small suggestion on build script

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Dann Corbit wrote:

> I would like to suggest changing the symlinks to copy commands:
>
> cp ./src/backend/port/tas/dummy.s ./src/backend/port/tas.s
> cp ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.c ./src/backend/port/dynloader.c
> cp ./src/backend/port/sysv_sema.c ./src/backend/port/pg_sema.c
> cp ./src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c ./src/backend/port/pg_shmem.c
> cp ./src/backend/port/dynloader/win32.h ./src/include/dynloader.h
> cp ./src/include/port/win32.h ./src/include/pg_config_os.h
> cp ./src/makefiles/Makefile.win32 ./src/Makefile.port
>
> The reason is that under Mingw, I get random failures with the symlinks
> (typically all will work but one or two, but there is no telling which
> will succeed and which will fail).

Would a hard link work, vs a symlink?

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