Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, bde@zeta.org.au, imp@harmony.village.org, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Message-ID: <200106180026.f5I0QGR09184@earth.backplane.com> References: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106172154520.582-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010617231418.A60728@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172128.f5HLSe108208@earth.backplane.com> <20010618015913.A45621@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172204.f5HM46608526@earth.backplane.com> <20010618021122.A45861@nagual.pp.ru>
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: :On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 15:04:06 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: :> :> What cases? In all my years of programming I've never once 'accidently' :> created an empty symlink. : :See initial Bruce comments. Sometimes when 'make hierarchy' step is :missing, intermediate result of 'make install' can't be undone easily. I :hit this several times because my area (l10n) is symlink-rich. : :-- :Andrey A. Chernov :http://ache.pp.ru/ If something in the build is creating empty symlinks under certain circumstances, that something should be fixed. The problem isn't ln -s. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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