2004-05-26 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / configure.in

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c4c7fad5d540fe918da48fddc97a898fb37c0d7f..42f7beacc7f986a1bb75c7e2c1e3803a13b73f2b 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ AC_ARG_PROGRAM
 
 # Get 'install' or 'install-sh' and its variants.
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
+AC_PROG_LN_S
 
 sinclude(config/acx.m4)
 
@@ -2247,6 +2248,36 @@ case $build in
 esac
 AC_SUBST(stage1_cflags)
 
+# It makes debugging easier if we create as symlinks the stage directories
+# gcc for stageN-gcc and stage-prev for stage(N-1).  In case this is not
+# possible, however, we can resort to mv.
+AC_CACHE_CHECK([if symbolic links between directories work],
+[gcc_cv_prog_ln_s_dir],
+[if test "${LN_S}" = "ln -s" \
+   && mkdir confdir.s1 \
+   && ln -s confdir.s1 confdir.s2 \
+   && echo timestamp1 > confdir.s1/conftest.1 \
+   && cmp confdir.s1/conftest.1 confdir.s2/conftest.1 \
+   && echo timestamp2 > confdir.s2/conftest.2 \
+   && cmp confdir.s1/conftest.2 confdir.s1/conftest.2 \
+   && rm -f confdir.s2; then
+  gcc_cv_prog_ln_s_dir=yes
+else
+  gcc_cv_prog_ln_s_dir=yes
+fi
+rm -rf confdir.s1 confdir.s2])
+
+case ${gcc_cv_prog_ln_s_dir} in
+  yes)
+    CREATE_LINK_TO_DIR='ln -s $$1 $$2'
+    UNDO_LINK_TO_DIR='rm -f $$1' ;;
+  *)
+    CREATE_LINK_TO_DIR='mv $$1 $$2'
+    UNDO_LINK_TO_DIR='mv $$1 $$2' ;;
+esac
+AC_SUBST(CREATE_LINK_TO_DIR)
+AC_SUBST(UNDO_LINK_TO_DIR)
+
 # Enable -Werror in bootstrap stage2 and later.
 # Change the default to "no" on release branches.
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(werror,