On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 20:07 -0700, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> ln -s dir1/foobar1 dir/foobar
> ln: creating symbolic link `dir/foobar' to `dir1/foobar1': File exists
> make: *** [dir/foobar] Error 1
>
>
> and the closer inspection with -d, reveals that make for some reason
> thinks the target does not even exist!
Make is right. It doesn't exist. If you try to "cat" it for example
you'll get the same error.
When you run:
ln -s dir1/foobar1 dir/foobar
that creates a symbolic link "foobar1" in the dir1 directory, and the
link points to "dir/foobar":
dir/foobar -> dir1/foobar1
But that's not right: for this to be correct you'd have to have a file
dir/dir1/foobar1 which you don't.
What you want here is:
ln -s ../dir1/foobar1 dir/foobar
This would give you:
dir/foobar -> ../dir1/foobar1
which is what you want based on your email.
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