GNU bug report logs - #18302
MSYS2 build issues

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Reported by: Karol Ostrovsky <karol.ostrovsky <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Karol Ostrovsky <karol.ostrovsky <at> gmail.com>, chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com, 18302 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18302: MSYS2 build issues
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 13:04:44 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> not sure we should be changing it.  In particular, I'm not sure
> non-GNU 'ln' supports these 2 switches (and why do you need -v
> anyway?).

http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html

   "Don't rely on ln having a -f option."

This and other changes that you commented on give the strong impression
that this patch contains a bunch of things that are just personal
preferences.
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