[Monotone-devel] fatal exception scanning symlink-to-parent

[Jens Alfke]

Looks like monotone (or Boost) blows up on symlinks that resolve to a  
parent directory. In this case, DotMacKit.framework (a library  
available from Apple's developer website) contains an embedded helper  
application, which uses the framework and hence includes a symlink to  
it. So this is actually a legitimate use of a symlink-to-parent.

I can easily avoid this particular case (it's in my build output  
directory, which I wouldn't check in anyway) but I thought you should  
know.

--Jens

[/IAccess/Papasan]> monotone list unknown
monotone: fatal: std::exception: boost::filesystem::is_directory: "/ 
IAccess/Papasan/build/Development-Linked/Papasan.app/Contents/ 
Frameworks/DotMacKit.framework/Versions/A/ 
Support/.MacMessageManager.app/Contents/Frameworks/ 
DotMacKit.framework/Versions/A/Support/.MacMessageManager.app/ 
Contents/Frameworks/DotMacKit.framework/Versions/A/ 
Support/.MacMessageManager.app/Contents/Frameworks/ 
DotMacKit.framework/Versions/A/Support/.MacMessageManager.app/ 
Contents/Frameworks/DotMacKit.framework/Versions/A/ 
Support/.MacMessageManager.a
monotone:
monotone: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
monotone: please send this error message, the output of 'monotone -- 
full-version',
monotone: and a description of what you were doing to monotone- 
address@hidden
monotone: wrote debugging log to /IAccess/Papasan/MT/debug

[/IAccess/Papasan]> monotone --full-version
monotone 0.24 (base revision: d59847072bb689e952ab21db7f9fababdb80a19f)
Running on: Darwin 8.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Thu Dec  1  
19:59:45 PST 2005; root:xnu-792.6.54.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh
Changes since base revision:
new_manifest [372d1c1e2c97f00c8a329d7f2dfae6ba28fe1db6]

old_revision [d59847072bb689e952ab21db7f9fababdb80a19f]
old_manifest [372d1c1e2c97f00c8a329d7f2dfae6ba28fe1db6]