proposed patch for checking for hard/soft links

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199709102240.PAA21518@cygnus.com >you write:
  > I am also looking at these patches, and was about to check it in.
Sorry, didn't mean to step on your toes...

  > I haven't seen the new Makefile changes from Kenner yet, however I did
  > notice that Fred's patch is missing changes to cp/Make-lang.in and
  > f/Make-lang.in which are trivial to add.
Minor stuff.

  > Hmm, looking at the Makefile.in changes you added, they don't seem to do
  > fix anything that wasn't already better fixed by Fred's patch.  Is there
  > any particular reason why you added in this change?
Mostly so that Fred could rework his patches from that base to avoid
any unnecessary conflicts.

If Fred's patch is better, then we can certainly use it instead of Kenner's.

jeff