2 # See if we need to provide symlink replacement.
4 dnl Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
6 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
7 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
9 # Written by Eric Blake.
11 AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_SYMLINK],
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 $ac_cv_func_symlink = no; then
21 AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether symlink handles trailing slash correctly],
22 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works],
28 if (!symlink ("a", "conftest.link/"))
30 if (symlink ("conftest.f", "conftest.lnk2"))
32 else if (!symlink ("a", "conftest.lnk2/"))
36 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works=yes], [gl_cv_func_symlink_works=no],
37 [gl_cv_func_symlink_works="guessing no"])
38 rm -f conftest.f conftest.link conftest.lnk2])
39 if test "$gl_cv_func_symlink_works" != yes; then