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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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> > Let me review my other 10 or so pending commits again, but I think all
> > of those are errors in SYMLINKS=.  Bapt did not answer my question
> > on how to deal with SYMLINKS hardcoded to use INSTALL_SYMLINKS but
> > I well need it to use INSTALL_RSYMLINKS for some of these corrections.
> > 
> > For now I have just feed the proper arguments to SYMLINKS so that it
> > creates proper relative paths.  

Both bapt and yourself have not responded to how I should deal with the
issue of relativie link paths needed in SYMLINKS= so I am going forward
with my pathces as they are, this at least gets a distrubution built
without any absolute links again, something that hasnt happened since
1995.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org