On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> (cd . && ln -s mmi.lo mmi.lo) >> (cd . && ln -s ports.lo ports.lo) >> ar cru .libs/libdha_vid.al libdha.lo mtrr.lo pci.lo pci_names.lo >> mmi.lo ports.lo >> ar: libdha.lo: Too many levels of symbolic links >> make[3]: *** [libdha_vid.la] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers/libdha' >> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers/libdha' >> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/avifile-0.6/drivers' >> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >> >> Is this purely a RH8/GCC3.2 thing? Any solutions? > >I don't see where GCC3.2 is involved in your example at all.
Indeed.. ;o) >Look at the top of your quote where the links are created. >Linking a file back to itself doesn't look like a good idea. Nonetheless, it is always somewhat amusing to see people who can't get something to work just blame it on the compiler, or on Red Hat instead. ;o) I get to see this about 50 times a day. Quite often, the solution to their problem is in the last 20 lines of error log output. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
