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8aeb5be9 1# serial 5
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2# See if we need to provide symlink replacement.
3
4dnl Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
6dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
7dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
8
9# Written by Eric Blake.
10
11AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_SYMLINK],
12[
13 AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS])
14 AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([symlink])
15 dnl The best we can do on mingw is provide a dummy that always fails, so
16 dnl that compilation can proceed with fewer ifdefs. On FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1,
17 dnl and Solaris 9, we want to fix a bug with trailing slash handling.
18 if test $ac_cv_func_symlink = no; then
19 HAVE_SYMLINK=0
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20 else
21 AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether symlink handles trailing slash correctly],
22 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works],
23 [AC_RUN_IFELSE(
24 [AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
25 [[#include <unistd.h>
26 ]],
27 [[int result = 0;
28 if (!symlink ("a", "conftest.link/"))
29 result |= 1;
30 if (symlink ("conftest.f", "conftest.lnk2"))
31 result |= 2;
32 else if (!symlink ("a", "conftest.lnk2/"))
33 result |= 4;
34 return result;
35 ]])],
36 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works=yes], [gl_cv_func_symlink_works=no],
37 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works="guessing no"])
38 rm -f conftest.f conftest.link conftest.lnk2])
39 if test "$gl_cv_func_symlink_works" != yes; then
40 REPLACE_SYMLINK=1
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41 fi
42 fi
43])