Good to know -- thanks!

(I was a little worried at first, because hwloc-1.3.1 uses a pretty recent 
libtool to build itself! LT 2.4)


On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:

> Upon further examination, I've discovered that this is HARMLESS noise.
> The "|| { rm && ln -s }" part DOES make the required symlink.
> In fact, ltmain.sh has a comment on this subject:
>            # Delete the old symlinks, and create new ones.
>            # Try `ln -sf' first, because the `ln' binary might depend on
>            # the symlink we replace!  Solaris /bin/ln does not understand -f,
>            # so we also need to try rm && ln -s.
> 
> Sorry for this report, which turned out NOT to be an actual problem.
> -Paul
> 
> 
> On 1/31/2012 6:53 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
>> The problem I described below is ALSO present in hwloc-1.4
>> -Paul
>> 
>> On 1/31/2012 5:43 PM, Paul H. Hargrove wrote:
>>> When running "make install" for hwloc-1.3.1 on my Solaris-10/x86 system I 
>>> am seeing multiple messages like:
>>>> libtool: install: (cd 
>>>> /export/home/phargrov/OMPI/hwloc-1.3.1-solaris10-x86-gcc343/INST/lib && { 
>>>> ln -s -f libhwloc.so.4.1.4 libhwloc.so.4 || { rm -f libhwloc.so.4 && ln -s 
>>>> libhwloc.so.4.1.4 libhwloc.so.4; }; })
>>>> Usage: ln [-f] [-s] f1
>>>>       ln [-f] [-s] f1 f2
>>>>       ln [-f] [-s] f1 ... fn d1
>>> 
>>> This is because "ln -s -f" is being run by libtool while "ln" on this 
>>> platform is happy only with "ln -f -s".
>>> This sensitivity to argument order is sad, but true.
>>> 
>>> -Paul
>>> 
>> 
> 
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