Re: FVWM: fvwm 2.3.22: symlink problems

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:57:39 -0500

Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> I suggest that either the ./configure script be modified to allow an
> option called --no-symlinks which would cause the make install
> section of the Makefile to do all the useual stuff except for
> symlinks. Alternatively the make install portion of the Makefile
> could check the filesystem to see if symlinks are supported but
> I don't know whether there's an easy way to do this other than
> reading /etc/fstab which of course is not optimal.
>
> By the way, as it stands I can run fvwm2 but some things such
> as the FvwmPager do not work as make install never got to the
> part of the Makefile which installed it (only some modules were
> installed in /usr/local/libexec/fvwm/2.3.22 so probably even
> ensuring that all symlinks are created only at the very end of
> the make install stage might result in a fix provided that there
> is nothing else that needs to be done after that).

Use "make -k" to keep going after an error.

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Received on Wed Nov 15 2000 - 05:58:28 GMT

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