Ticket #799 (new bug)
Configure should explicitly check for symbolic link capability on Linux
Reported by: | Austin_Hastings | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
Component: | configure | Version: | 1.3.0 |
Severity: | medium | Keywords: | ntfs symbolic links |
Cc: | Language: | ||
Patch status: | Platform: | linux |
Description
I'm running linux for Parrot work, but the underlying filesystem is NTFS, mounted r/w. This means that Configure.pl will detect my system as being linux, but it also means that symlinks don't work in the build area (ironically, they DO work in /usr/**, but not in /home/austin/parrot). When evaluating capabilities, Configure.pl should check to ensure that symlinks work. Presently, the build fails when trying to link a versioned .so to an unversioned on inside blib/lib. (I work around this by cp'ing it, and restart the make.)
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