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| -rw-r--r-- | reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk b/reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk index a721863..ea74ce4 100644 --- a/reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk +++ b/reproduce/analysis/make/download.mk @@ -60,9 +60,15 @@ $(inputdatasets): $(indir)/%.fits: | $(indir) $(lockdir) echo; echo; exit 1 fi - # Download (or make the link to) the input dataset. + # Download (or make the link to) the input dataset. If the file + # exists in `INDIR', it may be a symbolic link to some other place + # in the filesystem. To avoid too many links when using these files + # during processing, we'll use `readlink -f' so the link we make + # here points to the final file directly (note that `readlink' is + # part of GNU Coreutils). If its not a link, the `readlink' part + # has no effect. if [ -f $(INDIR)/$$origname ]; then - ln -s $(INDIR)/$$origname $@ + ln -fs $$(readlink -f $(INDIR)/$$origname) $$out else touch $(lockdir)/download $(downloadwrapper) "wget --no-use-server-timestamps -O" \ |