Re: MS-Windows build using Posix configury

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Oh, hmph, I actually bothered to read the configure code this time...
> So they are explicitly testing if links to directories work, which will
> handle the AFS case as well. So if we are only interested in links to
> _files_ (in the same directory) rather than directories as well, LN_S is
> too strict for us. Looks like there is no existing autoconf test for
> "portable link to a file within the same directory".

So probably we should just go back to using "ln", and forget about
AC_PROG_LN_S, sigh. (Or write our own test for the features of ln -s
that we want to use). In any case, it's not something you should have
had to worry about as part of your changes, sorry.