[Omake] Re: vmount via hard links on Win32

[Dmitry Bely]

On 9/14/06, David Kågedal <davidk at lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> >> > The following patch works for me. Somewhat like a hack (those NTFS
> >> > hard links have strange behaviour), but still does the job. Can
> >> > something like that be included into the distribution?
> >>
> >> I'm just curious, why do you need to link (or copy) the files at all?
> >
> > You mean why I am using omake's vmount? Because I like to build debug
> > and release versions simultaneously. Why link is better than copy?
> > Because the error message points to the file inside vmounted dir
> > (release or debug). In the case of copy I cannot jump to the error
> > message and edit the file - any changes will be lost.
>
> No, I mean why do you need to link or copy files while you are using
> vmount.  The whole point of vmount is that it can find the source
> files in their original locations, just so you *don't* have to copy
> nor link them.
>
> Just use vmount without any flags.  It works fine, as long as you
> apply the patch I posted for compiling C (Svn has been updated with
> it, plus mor of similar fixes, thank you!).  I haven't tried any
> O'Caml stuff, but I don't why it should work equally well there.

I have just tried vmount without flags for my Ocaml project - it does
not work (fails to find proper dependencies(?) and tries to compile
files in the wrong order). Maybe I am missing something?

- Dmitry Bely