Matthew Parry wrote: > On 14 Oct 2008, at 16:23, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On Oct 14, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Matthew Parry wrote: >> >>> fink-related... >>> >>> i stumbled on something interesting the other day as i was trying to >>> figure why some (non-fink) package wouldn't install. (i'm on 10.4.11 >>> intel, latest everything.) >>> >>> according to the last modified time, the file /usr/local/lib was >>> changed while i was updating to xcode 2.5. >>> >>> weirdly, /usr/local/lib became a symbolic link to itself! >>> >>> did anyone else have this issue? (i couldn't see it discussed on >>> fink- >>> users.) >>> >>> i changed the link it to point to /usr/lib and now my problematic >>> packages install. >>> >>> i guess my question is, was this the right thing to do? or was there >>> a real /usr/local/lib directory that i am now missing. >>> >> That's strange--Apple tools oughtn't mess with /usr/local at all, >> since none of their software should need it. >> > > i'm guessing it was xcode since there was a really large number of > other files modified/created at exactly the same time and they were > all xcode related. i certainly wasn't doing any other tinkering while > xcode was installing.
Apart from whether this was xcode releated or not, /usr/local is normally empty (not even sure if it exists) in a clean OSX install and no Apple stuff gets put there (and neither does Fink). However, some 3rd party software does put things there, so you _might_ have lost things, but impossible to know w/out seeing your computer. The other directories in /usr/local (like bin or include) might shed a light as to what may have been there. Also, the command 'ln' won't create a link overwriting something that already exists, but will create a link to itself if it doesn't exist, so 'ln -s /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib' will fail if /usr/local/lib exists, but succeed if it didn't exist, _suggesting_ your /usr/local/lib was empty at the start. Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser hanspeter AT snaggledworks DOT com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
