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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: LOCALE stuff
To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: olah@cs.utwente.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <nIfbKbl4h2@astral.msk.su> from "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Apr 19, 95 09:33:29 pm
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> 
> In message <2454.798285269@utis156.cs.utwente.nl> Andras Olah writes:
> 
> >On Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:51:50 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" wrote:
> >> >> >You'll have to set it to ``lt_LN.ISO8859-1'' for germany.
> >> >> 
> >> >> No. Do 'make hierarchy' at top level and you got needed symlinks.
> 
> >Just a little comment: my make world died at making the hierarchy
> >target.  The make distrib-dirs in etc which creates the locale
> >symlinks failed because the symlinks existed already.
> 
> It can't fail, there is ln -f

It can fail if he is running a version of ln.c prior to:
----------------------------
revision 1.5
date: 1994/12/06 18:50:44;  author: bde;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Use lstat() instead of stat() for checking if the final source file exists,
so that `ln -fs' works when the source is a symlink pointing to a non-
existent file.
----------------------------
or
----------------------------
revision 1.3
date: 1994/09/20 07:24:51;  author: phk;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
fix ln to accept -f again.  Thanks Bruce.  Seems that Joe Grosch isn't
quite as safe as I thought.  I will have to look much closer on his
patches.  Damn.
----------------------------

2.0R ln is broken with respect to ln -sf :-(.


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