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Re: scanner problem with packages depending on devel/gobject-introspection
On 08/01, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Yes. In my view we need to eiher
>
> 1) decide that it's a bug that packages lose when there is a symlink and
> fix them or
>
> 2) change mk/ to fail hard with a message if there is a symlink issue
Just a reminder that symlink issues have been a recurring
problem. For example, see this thread related to /bin/pwd and
devel/gobject-introspection:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2015/05/21/msg021577.html
In it, joerg@ said:
Don't use symlinks in PREFIX OR WRKOBJDIR.
To which chuck@ said:
We should document that pkgsrc limitation. I can add a note about
PREFIX to README.MacOSX.
It would be nice if bootstrap could check PREFIX for symlinks
at pkgsrc init time (e.g. something along the lines of
checkarg_sane_absolute_path).
To which dholland@ said:
I think it is documented, although if so it's obviously not prominent
enough.
and:
Yes, that's a good idea.
Among other comments. But there's no follow-up message to the thread
about anything that was done. And I don't find any mention of "link" in
bootstrap/{README,README.MacOSX}.
Lewis
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