Re: Bug #833: prep_buildtree and solaris ln

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: nate@cs.wisc.edu, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2002-12-03T05:06:10Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
 'ln -fs' doesn't do the same thing as 'ln -s -f' on Solaris?  Are you
sure?  This is the first we are hearing this.

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pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org wrote:
> Nathan Mueller (nate@cs.wisc.edu) reports a bug with a severity of 3
> The lower the number the more severe it is.
> 
> Short Description
> prep_buildtree and solaris ln
> 
> Long Description
> The linking command in config/prep_buildtree doesn't work with /usr/ucb/ln on solaris.  If line 36 is changed from:
> 
> ln -fs "$item" "$buildtree/$filename" || exit 1
> 
> to
> 
> ln -f -s "$item" "$buildtree/$filename" || exit 1
> 
> It'll work fine.
> 
> Sample Code
> 
> 
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> 
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