Re: Online documentation tar includes symlinks

On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:19:53PM +0000, Joachim Schimpf wrote:
> Warwick Harvey wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The tar archives for the online documentation contain symlinks (e.g.
> > umsroot.html -> index.html in doc/userman).  This means some of the
> > hyperlinks and cross-referencing in the online documentation doesn't work
> > under Windows (possibly depending upon the archiver used to extract it).
> 
> Are you referring to some older version?
> That problem seems to exist with neither
> 5.2_35 nor 5.3_42.

My apologies.  They're not symbolic links, they're hard links.  This
explains why sometimes index.html is the real file and sometimes it's the
link --- it depends upon which one gets tarred first.

Note the reference count on the files:

goat: cd ~/rotds/patch-2001-12-08/all/install.standard/doc/userman
goat: lm {index,umsroot}.html
-rw-rw-r--   2 wh       eclipse     33833 Dec  8 02:59 index.html
-rw-rw-r--   2 wh       eclipse     33833 Dec  8 02:59 umsroot.html
goat: 

Perhaps latex2html can be persuaded to just produce the one file, or perhaps
we can include just the one file in the distribution (as long as only one of
them is referred to in hyperlinks).

Cheers,
Warwick