I'm using node to build some jQuery plugins. The tests for each one run using grunt and qunit and include copies of jQuery from a shared directory which is above (i.e. outside of) the grunt server's web root for each one.
/plug1 //web root for plug2's server
/libs
/jquery
/tests
/plug2 //web root for plug2's server
/libs
/jquery
/tests
/jquery
jquery-1.9.0.js
...
jquery-1.5.0.js
So I'm trying to use symlinks in order to include jQuery in the tests
ln -s ../jquery/* libs/jquery
but when I run my tests task (which runs the tests once for each version of jQuery by writing a script tag for the right version after reading the version number from the page's query string) I get the following errors
Running "qunit:urls" (qunit) task
Testing test.html?jquery=1.5.0Error: ELOOP, stat '/Users/me/Sites/opensource/jquery/plug1/libs/jquery/jquery-1.5.js'
I'm relatively new to Unix, but I guess this means there's some infinite recursion error or similar.
Is there a way I can get node/grunt to use symlinks?
Run ln from the jquery directory.
cd plugs1/libs/jquery
ln -s ../../jquery/* .
cd ../../plugs2/libs/jquery
ln -s ../../jquery/* .