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From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 17:26:16 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
>     If something in the build is creating empty symlinks under certain
>     circumstances, that something should be fixed.  The problem isn't ln -s.

There is nothing to fix. Sometimes 'make install' instead 'make
installworld' typed can produce this. Of course, install procedure can be
complicated to make it foolprof, but I think the system must be fixed
instead to not resolve illegal names. It is not good idea to
produce workarounds of illegal names out of the system.

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Andrey A. Chernov
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