Message-Id: <200409170737.i8H7bqIb005353@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: 19 symlinks with missing target Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:35:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UoD-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-UoD-Spam-Report: -------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned by a SpamAssassin installation on the spam checking server hughnew at the University of Dundee. Content analysis details: (-1.4 hits, 5.0 required) 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name -1.5 BAYES_01 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 10% [score: 0.0178] X-UoD-Scan-Signature: d395f88b010c261d1b2af08a85ff85b3 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam In something like 90,000 files for the current full installation, of which 4,439 are symlinks, there are 19 with missing or wrongly defined target. They are /bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin /bin/aclocal-1.4 -> ../autotool/stable/bin/aclocal-1.4 /bin/aclocal-1.9 -> ../autotool/devel/bin/aclocal-1.9 /bin/automake-1.4 -> ../autotool/stable/bin/automake-1.4 /bin/automake-1.9 -> ../autotool/devel/bin/automake-1.9 /bin/rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log /lib/X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11 /lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/adalib/libgnarl.so -> libgnarl-*.so /lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/adalib/libgnat.so -> libgnat-*.so /lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-mingw32/3.3.1/gnat1.exe -> ../../i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/gnat1.exe /lib/rpmpopt -> rpm/rpmpopt /lib/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo /usr/X11R6/include/X11/X11 -> ../X11R6/include/X11 /usr/X11R6/share/tcm-2.20/help/CHANGELOG -> ../../CHANGELOG /usr/X11R6/share/tcm-2.20/help/COPYING -> ../../COPYING /usr/man/de/man1/gsbj.1 -> gslp.1 /usr/man/de/man1/gsdj.1 -> gslp.1 /usr/man/de/man1/gsdj500.1 -> gslp.1 /usr/man/de/man1/gslj.1 -> gslp.1 I can see that all those under /bin/ and some but not all under /lib/ actually work properly when mounted respectively under /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/. I got the listing by a simple translation of (sp)->(sp) to /../ for all symlinks and seeing whether the file or folder thus defined existed. In 4,420 cases (99.6% success) it did. None of these 19 others seems to be particularly problematic (but then I have never knowingly sought to use them). Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/