Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 19:45:21 +0100 From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dangling symlink in /usr/compat/linux Message-ID: <20010209194521.D27987@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> In-Reply-To: <3A843594.B28776D8@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:23:16AM -0800 References: <3A7D28EA.9EF46BAE@gorean.org> <20010204112342.A15191@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A7DFC47.C76A9872@FreeBSD.org> <20010205091559.A5563@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> <3A843594.B28776D8@cup.hp.com>
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Hello Marcel,
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:23:16AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> [taken to -ports]
I see it nowhere in the headers, so I am going to add a Cc: for it...
> The link is correct. On a Redhat 6.2 system:
>
> dhcp00% cd /mnt/usr/lib
> dhcp00% ls -al X11
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 16 Jul 18 2000 X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11
> dhcp00% more /mnt/etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
Which is not the point:-)
> > Solution: ? ( Maybe create the directory once we symlink to it? Seems like
> > a good idea... )
>
> Can you tell me what the problem was. I missed that.
The problem if you want it that way, is that although the symlink is
created upon installing linux_base, the directory it points to is not.
Hence the ${SUBJECT} about a "Dangling symlink". (If you install
linux_devtools, the directory is created, since there is a subdir in it.
That's why the problem may be harder to detect:-)
Maybe it would be a good idea to create a (empty if need be)
/usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib/X11 directory upon installing linux_base?
I have no idea how this came up btw, maybe some installation of some
third-party sw tried to follow the symlink and got confused? I just tried
to react to the problem at hand...
> > (Most probably this problem never surfaced before because the maintainers
> > had both ports installed on their systems.)
>
> I do have both ports in fact :-)
Me too, that's why I at first very self-confidently posted something along
the lines of "It works for me!" which earned blank stares from just about
anybody else:-)
--
Regards:
Szilveszter ADAM
Szeged University
Szeged Hungary
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