Robustness support for #8218 (symlink forest) since the GNU

tools seem to be overly picky about symlinkage depths.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8220

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.SH b/Makefile.SH
index f9ae6b72a1..5c543355bf 100644
--- a/Makefile.SH
+++ b/Makefile.SH
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ CLDFLAGS = $ldflags
 mallocsrc = $mallocsrc
 mallocobj = $mallocobj
 LNS = $lns
+CPS = $cp -f
 RMS = rm -f
 ranlib = $ranlib
 
@@ -300,9 +301,13 @@ utilities:	miniperl lib/Config.pm $(plextract) lib/lib.pm FORCE
 FORCE:
 	@sh -c true
 
+# We do a copy of the op.c instead of a symlink because gcc gets huffy
+# if we have a symlink forest to another disk (it complains about too many
+# levels of symbolic links, even if we have only two)
+
 opmini$(OBJ_EXT): op.c config.h
 	$(RMS) opmini.c
-	$(LNS) op.c opmini.c
+	$(CPS) op.c opmini.c
 	$(CCCMD) $(PLDLFLAGS) -DPERL_EXTERNAL_GLOB opmini.c
 	$(RMS) opmini.c
 
diff --git a/t/io/fs.t b/t/io/fs.t
index 7182c2496b..b401450bcd 100755
--- a/t/io/fs.t
+++ b/t/io/fs.t
@@ -129,10 +129,15 @@ chdir $wd || die "Can't cd back to $wd";
 unlink 'c';
 if ($^O ne 'MSWin32' and `ls -l perl 2>/dev/null` =~ /^l.*->/) {
     # we have symbolic links
-    if (symlink("TEST","c")) {print "ok 21\n";} else {print "not ok 21\n";}
-    $foo = `grep perl c`;
+    system("cp TEST TEST$$");
+    # we have to copy because e.g. GNU grep gets huffy if we have
+    # a symlink forest to another disk (it complains about too many
+    # levels of symbolic links, even if we have only two)
+    if (symlink("TEST$$","c")) {print "ok 21\n";} else {print "not ok 21\n";}
+    $foo = `grep perl c 2>&1`;
     if ($foo) {print "ok 22\n";} else {print "not ok 22\n";}
     unlink 'c';
+    unlink("TEST$$");
 }
 else {
     print "ok 21\nok 22\n";