On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:19:53PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 7:15 AM +0100 Joe Orton > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >This has broken the build on the various Linuxes that have a readlink > >that doesn't support -f. I'll backport the proper fixes for this stuff > >from HEAD. > > Oh, that sucks. Sorry. Out of curiosity, when was 'readlink -f' > introduced? Both Debian and RHEL have it (that's all I have access to).
It looks like RHL9 and later, where /usr/bin/readlink is the GNU coreutils implementation, which does support -f and -n. In earlier releases readlink was part of the teTeX package, strangely. joe
