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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>link farm</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="linearithmic.html" title="linearithmic"/><link rel="next" href="link-rot.html" title="link rot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">link farm</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="linearithmic.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="link-rot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="link-farm"/><dt xmlns="" id="link-farm"><b>link farm</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix] A directory tree that contains many links to files in a
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master directory tree of files. Link farms save space when one is
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maintaining several nearly identical copies of the same source tree —
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for example, when the only difference is architecture-dependent object
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files. “<span class="quote">Let's freeze the source and then rebuild the FROBOZZ-3 and
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FROBOZZ-4 link farms.</span>” Link farms may also be used to get around
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restrictions on the number of <b class="command">-I</b>
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(include-file directory) arguments on older C preprocessors. However, they
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can also get completely out of hand, becoming the filesystem equivalent of
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<a href="../S/spaghetti-code.html"><i class="glossterm">spaghetti code</i></a>. See also
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<a href="../F/farm.html"><i class="glossterm">farm</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="linearithmic.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="link-rot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">linearithmic </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> link rot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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