Jean-François Mertens wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2007, at 21:18, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Make sure that the only executable named "ln" on your PATH is
>> /usr/bin/ln. The fontconfig2-dev package uses some non-standard option
>> for the ln command that is understood by Apple's /usr/bin/ln, but
>> probably not by other ln versions (ln -fsn is more standard than ln
>> -fsh). I think the maintainer said he would change this , but so
>> far he
>> didn't.
> Please _ for my own education _ : I don't see what difference the
> "h" or "n" options make in case of symbolic links ("-s") : don't you
> write yourself explicitly the name of the target in the command then?
The difference is the following:
Suppose A and B are directories and you made a symlink C->A via
ln -s A C
Now suppose you want to change the link C to point to B instead of A. If
you execute
ln -sf B C
you won't get the desired result. You will instead get a symlink B->B
inside A. You need to say
ln -sfn B C
to change the symlink C->A to C->B.
--
Martin
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