<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Parrot - create a symlink shadow of the Parrot source.</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../resources/parrot.css" media="all"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <a href="http://www.parrot.org"> <img border=0 src="../../../resources/parrot_logo.png" id="logo" alt="parrot"> </a> </div> <!-- "header" --> <div id="divider"></div> <div id="mainbody"> <div id="breadcrumb"> <a href="../../../html/index.html">Home</a> » <a href="../../../html/tools.html">Tools</a> » create a symlink shadow of the Parrot source. </div> <h1><a name="NAME" >NAME</a></h1> <p>symlink.pl - create a symlink shadow of the Parrot source.</p> <h1><a name="SYNOPSIS" >SYNOPSIS</a></h1> <pre> # when in directory containing the checked out source in 'trunk' mkdir shadow cd shadow perl ../trunk/tools/dev/symlink.pl</pre> <h1><a name="DESCRIPTION" >DESCRIPTION</a></h1> <p>Create a symlink tree shadowing the Parrot source tree. Nifty for having just one (read-only) copy of the sources but several different build trees. The -v option displays the created symlinks.</p> <h1><a name="CHANGES" >CHANGES</a></h1> <p>1.1: Handle also: - being called with a relative path - being called through a symlink</p> <h1><a name="AUTHOR" >AUTHOR</a></h1> <p>jhi@iki.fi</p> </div> <!-- "mainbody" --> <div id="divider"></div> <div id="footer"> Copyright © 2002-2009, Parrot Foundation. </div> </div> <!-- "wrapper" --> </body> </html>