On 2/5/07, Carlo Calica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Everything is fine, until the installer tries to perform some
> > operation with symlinks, such as 'ln -s libc.so.6 libc.so'. Since
> > libc.so already exists in /System/Index/lib and no '--force' flag was
> > passed to ln, the link creation will fail, as well as the install
> > procedure.
> >
>
> How is this different from a normal "make install" on an other distro
> where /lib/libc.so already exists (from an earlier version)?  Maybe
> something with DESTDIR but that is hackey and /S/Index should be about
> removing hacks.

I think that it will also break on these systems, unless one runs
'make -i'. We could patch those "bad behaved" Makefiles, but I'm
afraid that the number of patches will increase considerably.

-- 
Lucas
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