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- From: brian AT bruns.com
- To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [freetds] status: documentation
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 08:09:03 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 05:41:51 -0500, "James K. Lowden"
wrote:
>
> On 24 Dec 2003, Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
> wrote:
> > Il mer, 2003-12-24 alle 01:45, James K. Lowden ha
> scritto:
> > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, "ZIGLIO Frediano"
> <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > I think creating a symbolic link is more obvious,
> more reliable,
> > > faster, and conserves disk space.
> >
> > I know, however distdir role seems to dislike links
> :( I had to change
> > that code for this reason... Note also that on Linux
> it seems to be a
> > problem creating links. ln check is first file
exists
> than create the
> > link so it's better to create link only on current
> directory.
>
> (see below)
>
> > > 1. Use '[', because I think it's fine.
> >
> > Ok. I'm quite new to Unix so it was only a tale for
> me :)
>
> This must be some definition of "new" I'm not familiar
> with.
>
This is documented in the autotools book among other
places. It is a best practices kinda thing. I'd
recommend following it if only because it's convention
for portable script, even if I can't think of a modern
system with problems, freetds has been run on some
pretty strange platforms.
-
[freetds] status: documentation,
James K. Lowden, 12/22/2003
-
Re: [freetds] status: documentation,
James K. Lowden, 12/26/2003
- Re: [freetds] status: documentation, Frediano Ziglio, 12/27/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
RE: [freetds] status: documentation,
ZIGLIO Frediano, 12/23/2003
- Re: [freetds] status: documentation, James K. Lowden, 12/23/2003
-
Re: [freetds] status: documentation,
James K. Lowden, 12/23/2003
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Re: [freetds] status: documentation,
Frediano Ziglio, 12/24/2003
- Re: [freetds] status: documentation, James K. Lowden, 12/24/2003
-
Re: [freetds] status: documentation,
Frediano Ziglio, 12/24/2003
-
RE: [freetds] status: documentation,
ZIGLIO Frediano, 12/23/2003
- Re: [freetds] status: documentation, James K. Lowden, 12/23/2003
- Re: [freetds] status: documentation, brian, 12/24/2003
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Re: [freetds] status: documentation,
James K. Lowden, 12/26/2003
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