Mike Holley wrote: > > I was reading on Fink's Faq page and it said that I should make sure > that "make" is a symlink of GNUmake. How am I suppose to do that? I have > checked the 3 books on Unix I have and there is no mention of it in the > index.
"symlink" is short for "symbolic link" which is surely in the index of any Unix book. You recognize them in long file listings as arrows and from the letter "l" at the beginning of the line: [imac:]martin% ll /usr/bin/*make -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 119092 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/bsdmake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 184648 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/gnumake lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Apr 18 13:29 /usr/bin/make -> gnumake You remove the link via rm: [imac:]martin% sudo rm /usr/bin/make [imac:]martin% ll /usr/bin/*make -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 119092 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/bsdmake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 184648 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/gnumake and you create it via "ln -s": [imac:]martin% sudo ln -s gnumake /usr/bin/make [imac:]martin% ll /usr/bin/*make -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 119092 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/bsdmake -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 184648 Dec 21 11:27 /usr/bin/gnumake lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Apr 21 18:44 /usr/bin/make -> gnumake -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
