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symlink install problem


From: Harlan Stenn
Subject: symlink install problem
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:08:20 -0500
User-agent: EMH/1.10.0 SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) XEmacs/21.1 (patch 14) (Cuyahoga Valley) (i386--freebsd)

The install target for gawk does something like:

 if [ test -f awk ] ...

and this mechanism fails on machines like Solaris when the symlink is there,
as -f tests for a Real File, not a symlink.

The next problem is that the solaris "test" does not implement -e, and there
are some versions of "test" that do not support  -h/-L.

Grunt.

H




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