On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 13:00 +0300, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> The instructions for building Xorg in the BLFS book from 2006-05-31 say to 
> sun the following commands as the root user:
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/bin /usr/bin/X11 &&
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11 &&
> ln -v -s ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11
> 
> I think "../ " needs to be replaced with "/usr/", doesn't it?

Not as far as I can see - symlinks work fine as relative paths. The
above example will evaluate as, e.g, /usr/bin/../X11R6/bin, which is of
course the same as /usr/X11R6/bin.

I assume that the reason for using relative paths above is to avoid
having such links relative to the root directory - if the partition is
mounted to a different location, links will still point to the files
they're intended to.

Simon.

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