[tex-live] Re: testing 27/28

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 14:51:56 CEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:32, Karl Berry wrote:
>     the demo CD is not runnable under windows because the .map files are
>     symbolic links to their counterparts. 
> 
> Well, this seems a fairly serious problem :).
> 
> Thomas, what do you think about changing the "ln -s" commands in updmap
> into "cp -f"?
> 
> Alternatively, for purposes of TL production, we could have
> MakeImages.sh replace the map symlinks with files.

I'm inclined to the former, so that in general Unix systems can export
their file systems safely

sebastian



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