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Re: tabs.1 is installed as a dangling symlink
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: tabs.1 is installed as a dangling symlink |
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Sat, 20 Jul 2019 06:17:16 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 12:48:02PM +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:
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> ,----
> | $ ./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:
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> ,----
> | installing /tmp/ncurses/share/man/man1/tabs.1 tabs.1.gz
> | .. installing alias tabs.1
> `----
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> I don't know what the intention was, but installing tabs.1 as an alias
> (= symlink) to itself cannot be right.
I was attempting to fix a broken link in terminfo(5)
(now I see it was the wrong fix :-)
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