#!/usr/local/bin/perl
-# mklink.pl -- a faster substitute for mklink.sh.
+# mklink.pl
# The first command line argument is a non-empty relative path
# specifying the "from" directory.
my @pwd_path = split(/\//, $pwd);
my @to_path = ();
-foreach my $dirname (@from_path) {
+
+my $dirname;
+foreach $dirname (@from_path) {
# In this loop, @to_path always is a relative path from
# @pwd_path (interpreted is an absolute path) to the original pwd.
my $to = join('/', @to_path);
-foreach my $file (@files) {
-# print "ln -s $to/$file $from/$file\n";
- symlink("$to/$file", "$from/$file");
- print $file . " => $from/$file\n";
+my $file;
+$symlink_exists=eval {symlink("",""); 1};
+foreach $file (@files) {
+ my $err = "";
+ if ($symlink_exists) {
+ symlink("$to/$file", "$from/$file") or $err = " [$!]";
+ } else {
+ system ("cp", "$file", "$from/$file") and $err = " [$!]";
+ }
+ print $file . " => $from/$file$err\n";
}