In <20101209132829.219710 at gmx.net> "Malcolm Hunter" <malcolm.hunter at gmx.co.uk> writes:
ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file? How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ? If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?
Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work, since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.
Actually, I just did a web-download "GNU-tarball" from the branches/4.3.0/ directory. Guess that doesn't work either. I'll just fix the symlinks manually - is there anything else that might be broken this way?
That's right - the tarball from the web svn breaks the symlinks
Really ?!!? <checking> WTF .... You're right. Sourceforge bug, in my book.
Henrik, couldn't we dispense with putting symlinks into SVN and generate them during the build instead?
It's just much simpler to have them in the source-tree. And "svn co" works fine, as does the "svn export"-generated files.
I'll think about it.
Regards, Henrik