From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 17 17:26:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABB137B407 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f5I0QGR09184; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:26:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200106180026.f5I0QGR09184@earth.backplane.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" Cc: Jordan Hubbard , bde@zeta.org.au, imp@harmony.village.org, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] References: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010617231418.A60728@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172128.f5HLSe108208@earth.backplane.com> <20010618015913.A45621@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172204.f5HM46608526@earth.backplane.com> <20010618021122.A45861@nagual.pp.ru> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 15:04:06 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: :> :> What cases? In all my years of programming I've never once 'accidently' :> created an empty symlink. : :See initial Bruce comments. Sometimes when 'make hierarchy' step is :missing, intermediate result of 'make install' can't be undone easily. I :hit this several times because my area (l10n) is symlink-rich. : :-- :Andrey A. Chernov :http://ache.pp.ru/ If something in the build is creating empty symlinks under certain circumstances, that something should be fixed. The problem isn't ln -s. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message