Re: Problem with symlinks and VPATH Builds

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> And it's not simply a matter of a personal preference for brevity: in
> some cases, the canonical paths are not portable from one host to
> another, whereas the logical paths are.  This is due to NFS automounting
> gymnastics.  I've heard that the same thing also happens with AFS.

Yes, AFS can be mounted in different places on different hosts, so while
people who run AFS pretty much always make:

    /afs/cell.name/path/to/file

work regardless using symlinks or the like, canonicalizing the path may
result in something like:

    /chroot/afs/cell.name/path/to/file

for instance on systems where AFS is mounted under a chroot, and that path
won't be portable.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>