Subj : Javascript TW2
To   : Accession
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Jan 01 2018 11:42 pm

  Re: Javascript TW2
  By: Accession to Dumas Walker on Mon Jan 01 2018 07:26 pm

 > Hello Dumas,
 >
 > On Mon Jan 01 2018 17:44:00, Dumas Walker wrote to ACCESSION:
 >
 >  DW> When I am looking at:
 >
 >  DW> http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix
 >
 >  DW> The Updating section shows symlinks on the make lines, on Step 4 parts
 >  DW> 1 and 2.
 >
 >  DW> Maybe we are looking at different pages?  :D
 >
 > Nope. Same page. That must have been something added recently, as I've never
 > seen or used "symlinks" on those lines before.

Yes, pretty new:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/targets.mk

 > The only time I use SYMLINK=1 is when compiling for the first time, or
 > changing
 > between a RELEASE build and a DEBUG build, which I also haven't done for
 > quite  some time, so I haven't needed to redo symlinks in a long time. Once
 > they're  created for the first time, they don't go away unless you delete
 > them. ;)

Right, but when people switch between release and debug builds or copies and
symlinks, those new targets can come in handy.

                                            digital man

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