On 2/4/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
Checking manpage for 'make -i', that just ignores errors. That would leave the symlink pointing to the old version. -- Carlo J. Calica _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
