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Re: tabs.1 is installed as a dangling symlink
From: |
Sven Joachim |
Subject: |
Re: tabs.1 is installed as a dangling symlink |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:13:47 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) |
On 2019-07-15 12:48 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Not sure when this broke, but in the current patchlevel (20190713),
> "make install" installs tabs.1 as a symlink to itself:
>
> ,----
> | $ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/ncurses && make install
> | [...]
> | $ LC_ALL=C ls -l /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs*
> | lrwxrwxrwx 1 sven sven 6 Jul 15 12:36 /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs.1 ->
> tabs.1
> `----
>
> In the "make install" output I see the following messages:
>
> ,----
> | installing /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs.1 tabs.1.gz
> | .. installing alias tabs.1
> `----
>
> I don't know what the intention was, but installing tabs.1 as an alias
> (= symlink) to itself cannot be right.
Reverting the last change to man/man_db.renames from the 20190623
patchlevel fixed that.
diff --git a/man/man_db.renames b/man/man_db.renames
index ce768f92..d7f323bb 100644
--- a/man/man_db.renames
+++ b/man/man_db.renames
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ user_caps.5 user_caps.5
wresize.3x wresize.3ncurses
#
# Other:
-tabs.1m tabs.1
tack.1m tack.1
#
getty.1 getty.8
Cheers,
Sven