Xapian devel - Jun 2005 - Solaris (and stuff) build issue

Can't configure on Solaris 9 Sparc, on a volume mounted over NFS from
Debian 3.0 linux 2.2 IA32. For some reason, cc1plus thinks
_versionh.cc is a directory.

Changing the ``ln -s'' to a ``cp'' solves this problem. Is there
any
reason not to cp?

Solaris->Solaris NFS, and Solaris local file system are both quite
happy without this change.

J

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  James Aylett                                                  xapian.org
  james at tartarus.org                               uncertaintydivision.org

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:23:05PM +0100, James Aylett
wrote:
> Can't configure on Solaris 9 Sparc, on a volume mounted over NFS from
> Debian 3.0 linux 2.2 IA32. For some reason, cc1plus thinks
> _versionh.cc is a directory.
Umm.
> Changing the ``ln -s'' to a ``cp'' solves this problem. Is
there any
> reason not to cp?
Not really, except a symlink is slightly less work.

But I think it might be better to simply rename "version.h.in". 
It's
not an autoconf substituted ".in" file, so the current name is a bit
misleading really.  We could just rename it "version_h.cc" and avoid
the
need to symlink or copy.

Cheers,
    Olly