From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@charter.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dosym
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:26:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0408141626340.24689@strider> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040814222016.29275989@andy.genone.homeip.net>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-14 20:01 [gentoo-dev] dosym Brett I. Holcomb
2004-08-14 20:20 ` Marius Mauch
2004-08-14 20:26 ` Brett I. Holcomb [this message]
2004-09-18 1:34 ` Brett I. Holcomb
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