Re: [OMPI devel] GNU Automake 1.14 released

[Peter Johansson]

On 09/04/2013 09:10 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)"<address@hidden>  writes:
> > We've been using sym links in the OMPI project for years in order to
> > compile a series of .c files in 2 different ways.  It's portable to
> > all the places that we need/want it.
> Hmm, how about just "cp" ...? :]

Autoconf's AC_CONFIG_LINKS provides a way to use symbolic links when 
possible and otherwise hard links or copies. Could be an alternative if 
portability becomes an issue

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#AC_005fCONFIG_005fLINKS

Cheers,
Peter