[gentoo-dev] dosym

[gentoo-dev] dosym

[Brett I. Holcomb]

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.

Looking at dosym all it does is ln -snf Target ${D}/link

What am I missing here?

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] dosym

[Marius Mauch]

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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Re: [gentoo-dev] dosym

[Brett I. Holcomb]

This is after I do the emerge myapp.  I'm looking at the final install.


On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Marius Mauch wrote:

> 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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>

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Re: [gentoo-dev] dosym

[Brett I. Holcomb]

After I do emerge myapp - I'm looking at the final product.

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Marius Mauch wrote:

> 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
>
> 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
>
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>

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