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Use ln -n instead of -h to allow building the kernel on Linux
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Authored by arichardson on Jan 16 2018, 7:19 PM.
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Both flags do the same thing but -n is more widely understood.

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LGTM. I wonder if we should have a tiny comment that says we use -n for broader portability (since the -h is documented in the man page as the canonical option).

Or maybe we could add Portable scripts may wish to use -n instead of -h . to the -n description in ln's manpage?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 16 2018, 7:38 PM

Possibly s/understood/supported/ in the commit message, but that's a minor nit.

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