On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 02:52 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
-- huckleup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on Montag, 20. Januar 2003 2:40 Uhr -0800 regarding [Fink-beginners] ln -h not supported?:
[...]
OK, so I can manually modify any problem scripts if need be. Kind of a pain if the scripts come buried in some distribution installer, but at least now I know what I can do. I just remembered the original syntax from a past reading of the Apple supplied man page. It's kind of a pain to access the old man pages once overridden by the newly installed fink/FSF ones. Thanks for the tip.Is the -h option to ln some kind of Apple extension to ln? Is the lack ofA quick look at the manpages reveals:
support for this option in the FSF version intentional, or is it a bug?
Apple
-h If the target_file or target_dir is a symbolic link, do not follow
it. This is most useful with the -f option, to replace a symlink
which may point to a directory.
-n Same as -h, for compatibility with other ln implementations.
fileutils
-n, --no-dereference
treat destination that is a symlink to a directory
as if it were a normal file
So, use -n.
This was one of my fears in touching the original Apple distribution - now what works for other OS X users may not work for me without troubleshooting and modification (or disabling the fink sw paths). I disabled the FSF version of ln just to be sure that I don't get bit in case this one comes up again, like in a future OS update. I hope there aren't any more of these kinds of hidden issues waiting to bite me in the future. Ahhh, the price of thinking differently.
So, who controls these things? Does someone just make up whatever command syntax they want? Isn't this controlled by some POSIX or BSD spec or something?
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