[patch] 3.7.1p2: slogin symlink fixes
Gert Doering
gert at greenie.muc.de
Mon Nov 17 04:30:25 EST 2003
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:53:43AM -0500, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B wrote:
> > -rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/slogin
> > - ln -s ./ssh$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/slogin
> > + cd $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) && $(LN_S) ssh$(EXEEXT) slogin$(EXEEXT)
>
> Why not:
> $(LN_S) ssh$(EXEEXT) $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/slogin$(EXEEXT)
Because that's not going to work for hard links. A hard link needs a
real file to start with, so unless you specify the full path (which
would make the symlink non-local) you need to be in the proper
directory.
gert
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