From 01aed9a741593ab92e18b952affac67be5bf0a78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 07:13:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] (dist): Explicitly check for symlinks, and copy them.

---
 Makefile.in | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index d4e9e795..f2d98f38 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -155,7 +155,11 @@ dist: bison.info
 	-rm -rf `cat .fname`
 	mkdir `cat .fname`
 	dst=`cat .fname`; for f in $(DISTFILES); do \
-	   ln $$f $$dst/$$f || { echo copying $$f; cp -p $$f $$dst/$$f ; } \
+	 if test -L $$f; then \
+	   cp $$f $$dst/$$f; chmod a-w $$dst/$$f; \
+	 else \
+	   ln $$f $$dst/$$f; \
+	 fi \
 	done
 	tar --gzip -chf `cat .fname`.tar.gz `cat .fname`
 	-rm -rf `cat .fname` .fname
-- 
2.45.2