Re: unresolved symlinks in unpacked source


Subject: Re: unresolved symlinks in unpacked source
From: Dick Visser (dick@tienhuis.nl)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 17:34:08 EST


On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Dick Visser wrote:

> Perhaps a stupid question, but when I unpack the sources, alot of files
> are symlinks to files I don't have (on my mandrake 7.2 box).

I didn't have the right packages installed. After I installed:

automake-1.4-14mdk.noarch.rpm
libtool-1.3.5-2mdk.i586.rpm

all the links were resolved.

> Also when I tried to compile it on OpenBSD2.7 I did have the files but
> the links were poiting at the wrong directory (the assumed /usr/local
> should have been /usr/share/local). When I fixed the links I got piles of
> errors when I tried to make the thing (Error:** Stop, or something like
> that..). The ./configure prior to that was very quit though.....
> I checked the makefile on what error in what line but that was too much
> for me as a non-programmer ;-)

Havent looked after this yet.

-- 

Dick Visser



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