Sure enough...you are correct.
I noticed, however, than when using hard links instead of symbolic
links, everything is fine. The link is replaced. Symbolic fail quite
badly though. I suppose rm is in order prior to linking the
directories.
Jonathan Irving wrote:
>
> yup -- -f fails silently...maybe rm them first...
>
> cheers
> j
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 11:30:00AM -0400, Jeff Raven wrote:
> > X-Loop: blackbox
> > Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:30:00 -0400
> > From: Jeff Raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: 0.60.3 on solaris 7 -- make install error
> >
> > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Markland J. Benson wrote:
> > > Since you are linking directories, using "ln -sf <source> <dest>" rather
> > > than "ln -s <source> <dest>" should fix it nicely. The "-f" option
> > > forces an overwrite of the existing symbolic link.
> > >
> >
> > Problem is, that's what our Makefile's already use. According the
> > manpages I've got on my Sun, ln -f just seems to disable user
> > interaction, instead of removing pre-existing links first.
> >
> > Jeff Raven
> >
>
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