From: Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dosym
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:20:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040814222016.29275989@andy.genone.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408141533390.24689@strider>
On 08/14/04 Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I'm trying to create symlinks in an ebuild using dosym but an having
> some problems. I do the following:
>
> dosym /usr/xyz/file /usr/abc/file
>
> or
>
> dosym ${D}/usr/xyz/file /usr/abc/file
>
> but all I get in /usr/abc is a broken symlink.
>
> The directory /usr/xyz has file in it and /usr/abc has file ->
> /usr/xyz/file but ls shows a flashing red broken symlink and if I go
> to/usr/abc and do ./file it says no such file or directory.
Before or after the merge phase?
It's normal that the symlink is "broken" before the merge phase if you
use absolute symlinks, that's why ebuilds should always use relative
links.
Marius
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2004-08-14 20:01 [gentoo-dev] dosym Brett I. Holcomb
2004-08-14 20:20 ` Marius Mauch [this message]
2004-08-14 20:26 ` Brett I. Holcomb
2004-09-18 1:34 ` Brett I. Holcomb
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