Re: [xine-devel] Re: Symbolic links in the cvs?

[Daniel Caujolle-B. <seg...@cl...>]

Hi,

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 11:33 06 May 2002, James Courtier-Dutton <Ja...@su...> wrote:
> | I have noticed a few symbolic links in the xine-lib cvs.
> | These basically are used to include files so as not to duplicate them.
> | I don't think that all the platforms which xine-lib is intended for will 
> | support symbolic links.
> | One example I can think of is Microsoft Windows.
> | 
> | 1) Is my statement above true?
> 
> I believe so. And don't even think about hard links :-(

	Errmmm, where are you find symlinks in xine-lib CVS ??? I just checked 
that, and i haven't found any !! I just use $(LN_S) in xine-ui, and 
since it's almost *nix only, i don't see any problems.


> | 2) would it be better to use small files instead with a single line in 
> | the saying #include "../xyz/yyy.h"
> 
> I think so.

Ugly, and break many auto* checks (try that and exec 'make distcheck' ;-) ).

Cheers.
-- 
73's de Daniel, F1RMB.

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