July 26, 2011
10:19 p.m.
Ok, apparently the decision to make hard links for executables dates at least back to: changeset: 16221:588691f806f4 branch: legacy-trunk user: Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca> date: Wed Jan 24 17:11:43 2001 +0000 files: Makefile.pre.in description: Flat makefile based on toplevel Makefile.in and makefiles in build subdirectories. Those other makefiles will go away eventually. [...] +# Install the interpreter (by creating a hard link to python$(VERSION)) +bininstall: altbininstall + -if test -f $(BINDIR)/$(PYTHON); \ + then rm -f $(BINDIR)/$(PYTHON); \ + else true; \ + fi + (cd $(BINDIR); $(LN) python$(VERSION)$(EXEEXT) python$(EXEEXT)) + Regards Antoine.