[Project-managers] Generation of Links for Data Files

[Kipp Martin]

Hi:

I wonder if another project manager might help with problem.

I have some data files that are required by the unitTest and some other 
example executables that I build.  I currently put these files in a data 
directory in my project root. That is, the files are in

OS/data

If someone does a VPATH configuration I want them to be able to access 
these files.  I tried the following for an example file parincLinear.osil:

AC_COIN_VPATH_LINK(data/parincLinear.osil)

However this does not work. Assume someone connects to my project root 
directory and creates a new directory

mkdir build

and then runs configure from the new build directory, i.e.

../configure

Then configure script produces an error message when it tries to create 
a symbolic link to the data files. The reason (I think) is that the data 
directory (even though it is in the svn repository) does NOT get created 
in build/OS. That is, there is no build/OS/data directory created by 
configure. Hence there is no directory to put the symbolic link into. 
Any ideas how to overcome this problem?

Thanks,


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Kipp Martin
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Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
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