Re: SV: [xymon] Fresh SVN-install yields "link stdnormal_footer" on all subpages

[Henrik "Størner" <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

In <20101209132829.219710 (at) gmx.net> "Malcolm Hunter" <malcolm.hunter (at) gmx.co.uk> writes:


>> >>ng - shouldn't they simply symlink to the stdnormal_footer file?
>> > How did you download the sourcecode - just the file available from
>> > the "Files" section of Sourceforge, or as a checkout from SVN ?
>> > If the latter, did you use a Unix-version of the SVN utilities ?
>> >
>> > Downloading using a Windows-based SVN client is unlikely to work,
>> > since Windows doesn't support symbolic links.
>> 
>> Actually, I just did a web-download "GNU-tarball" from the branches/4.3.0/
>> directory. Guess that doesn't work either. I'll just fix the symlinks
>> manually - is there anything else that might be broken this way?

>That's right - the tarball from the web svn breaks the symlinks

Really ?!!? <checking> WTF .... You're right.  Sourceforge bug, in my book.


>Henrik, couldn't we dispense with putting symlinks into SVN and generate 
>them during the build instead?

It's just much simpler to have them in the source-tree. And "svn co" works
fine, as does the "svn export"-generated files.

I'll think about it.


Regards,
Henrik