Re: one line patches for Windows98

Op een zonnige winterdag (Saturday 07 February 2004 18:13), schreef Nicholas 
Clark:

> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:40:32AM +0100, Abe Timmerman wrote:
[snip]
> > I am still working on this one as I do not want to loose the link()
> > functionality. This needs some thought and more work.
>
> using link (when it is there) brings 2 advantages - speed and space
>
> There's only actually 1 copy each source file taking up disk space, and
> making hard links is much faster than copying files.

This is why I didn't want to loose it.

> Can the Syncer find out if link is present either from use Config; or
> from processing @$ after eval?

Thanks for that, it looks like $Config{d_link} eq 'define' should do the 
trick.

[   598] By: abeltje                          on 2004-02-07 19:55:06 +0100
        Log: * [CHANGE] as suggested by Greg Matheson
               * Test::Smoke::Syncer::Hardlink now also supports systems
                 without hardlinks by using File::Copy::copy.
        Url: http://www.Test-Smoke.org/svn/Test-Smoke
           ! /Test-Smoke/lib/Test/Smoke/Syncer.pm,
             /Test-Smoke/t/syncer_link.t

Good luck,

Abe
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