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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:01:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:        Octave maintainer <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   bad link in octave when install package using pkg_add -p
Message-ID:  <200309090501.h8951BVQ000324@Elmer.timing.com>

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>Submitter-Id:	current-users
>Originator:	John E. Hein
>Organization:	Timing Solutions
>Confidential:	no
>Synopsis:	bad link in octave when install package using pkg_add -p
>Severity:	non-critical
>Priority:	medium
>Category:	ports
>Class:		sw-bug
>Release:	FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD Elmer.timing.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 2 03:24:03 MST 2002 root@Bugs.timing.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/LOCAL_MP i386



>Description:

	If you build a package for math/octave, then try to install
	the package to a non-default location using pkg_add -p (as
	you might if you were building a system under a different
	mount point, like a chroot), the lib/octave sym link will
	point to the wrong place.


>How-To-Repeat:
	

    cd math/octave
    make package
    pkg_add -r /some/chroot octave-2.1.50.tgz
    ls -l /some/chroot/usr/local/lib/octave


    Observe that it points to /some/chroot/usr/local/lib/octave-2.1.50
    which fails when in the chroot.


>Fix:

	Don't sym link to an absolute path name; then it works in all cases.

	Here's the patch...

--- math/octave/pkg-plist.orig	Tue Aug 26 11:11:24 2003
+++ math/octave/pkg-plist	Mon Sep  8 22:47:44 2003
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@
 lib/octave-%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%/liboctinterp.so
 lib/octave-%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%/liboctinterp.so.%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%
 @unexec /bin/rm -f %D/lib/octave
-@exec /bin/ln -sf %D/lib/octave-%%OCTAVE_VERSION%% %D/lib/octave
+@exec /bin/ln -sf octave-%%OCTAVE_VERSION%% %D/lib/octave
 libexec/octave/%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%/exec/%%GNU_HOST%%/info-emacs-info
 libexec/octave/%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%/exec/%%GNU_HOST%%/info-emacs-octave-help
 libexec/octave/%%OCTAVE_VERSION%%/oct/%%GNU_HOST%%/airy.oct



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