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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:02:11 +0100
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Igor Peshansky ha scritto:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
>> I have noticed that if I do 'ls -l /bin'
>>
>> I get the following wrong links:
>>
>> X11 -> ../X11R6/bin
>>
>> pnmnoraw -> pnmtoplainpnm.exe               [1]
>>
>> rcs2log -> ../share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log
>> webcheck -> ../share/webcheck/webcheck.py
>>
>>
>> If I do 'ls -l /usr/bin', only [1] is still wrong, the remaining links
>> are OK.
>>
>> Regarding [1], 'pnmtoplainpnm.exe' does not exist, only 'pnmtoplainpnm' is
>> there, without '.exe'!
> 
> [1] is a packaging error.  pnmtoplainpnm is a bash script, and the link is
> in this form in the binary tarball.
> 
>> Is this different behaviour ('ls -l /bin' / 'ls -l /usr/bin') to be
>> expected?
> 
> Well, yes.  Since the links are relative, doing "ls -l /bin" will attempt
> to find the files in /share, which doesn't exist.
> 
> These are also packaging errors because, again, the links exist in the
> relative form in the binary tarballs (I've only checked the cvs tarball,
> but I assume webcheck has the same issue).
> 
> This may be a cygport bug as well.
> 
> Good catch.
> 	Igor

Also 'ls -l /lib' / 'ls -l /usr/lib' shows something similar with:

X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11
terminfo -> ../share/terminfo


Angelo.


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