[fpc-devel] MIPS

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

>> Question if I may: should I be avoiding symlinks as non-portable?
> 
> For anything that should go back into SVN: no symlinks (*).  
> 
> (and in general, even without SVN concerns, I don't think heavy symlinking
> is a good concept in sources.  This would cause only problems because sb
> might modify it for ppc, and not notice mips also linked to the file)
> 
> (*)http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#symlinks

Thanks, noted. Obviously while I've just got a local copy on my system I 
can easily locate symlinks, SVN is very much in the future since I've 
got limited confidence in my work so far.

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