# -*-perl-*- $description = "Test the -L option."; $details = "Verify that symlink handling with and without -L works properly."; # Only run these tests if the system sypports symlinks # Apparently the Windows port of Perl reports that it does support symlinks # (in that the symlink() function doesn't fail) but it really doesn't, so # check for it explicitly. if ($port_type eq 'W32' || !( eval { symlink("",""); 1 })) { # This test is N/A return -1; } use File::Spec; # Set up a symlink sym -> dep # We'll make both dep and targ older than sym &utouch(-10, 'dep'); &utouch(-5, 'targ'); $dirnm = (File::Spec->splitdir($cwddir))[-1]; symlink(File::Spec->catfile(File::Spec->updir(), $dirnm, 'dep'), 'sym'); # Without -L, nothing should happen # With -L, it should update targ run_make_test('targ: sym ; @echo make $@ from $<', '', "#MAKE#: 'targ' is up to date."); run_make_test(undef, '-L', "make targ from sym"); # Now update dep; in all cases targ should be out of date. &touch('dep'); run_make_test(undef, '', "make targ from sym"); run_make_test(undef, '-L', "make targ from sym"); # Now update targ; in all cases targ should be up to date. &touch('targ'); run_make_test(undef, '', "#MAKE#: 'targ' is up to date."); run_make_test(undef, '-L', "#MAKE#: 'targ' is up to date."); # Add in a new link between sym and dep. Be sure it's newer than targ. sleep(1); rename('dep', 'dep1'); symlink('dep1', 'dep'); # Without -L, nothing should happen # With -L, it should update targ run_make_test(undef, '', "#MAKE#: 'targ' is up to date."); run_make_test(undef, '-L', "make targ from sym"); rmfiles('targ', 'dep', 'sym', 'dep1'); # Check handling when symlinks point to non-existent files. Without -L we # should get an error: with -L we should use the timestamp of the symlink. symlink("../$dirnm/dep", 'sym'); run_make_test('targ: sym ; @echo make $@ from $<', '', "#MAKE#: *** No rule to make target 'sym', needed by 'targ'. Stop.", 512); run_make_test('targ: sym ; @echo make $@ from $<', '-L', 'make targ from sym'); rmfiles('targ', 'sym'); 1;