onsdag den 3 november 2010 klockan 10:53 skrev Jim Meyering detta: > Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have made a strange observation concerning > > > > lib/unlocked-io.h > > > > which appears when running the bootstrap script > > for GNU Inetutils. > >
> [...] > > remains, which is pointing at the non-existent > > location > > > > ../gnulib/unlocked-io.h > > Thanks for the report. > > There is already code in gnulib's bootstrap script designed to > remove dangling symlinks from m4/ and lib/-style directories: > > # Remove any dangling symlink matching "*.m4" or "*.[ch]" in some > # gnulib-populated directories. Such .m4 files would cause aclocal to fail. > # The following requires GNU find 4.2.3 or newer. Considering the usual > # portability constraints of this script, that may seem a very demanding > # requirement, but it should be ok. Ignore any failure, which is fine, > # since this is only a convenience to help developers avoid the relatively > # unusual case in which a symlinked-to .m4 file is git-removed from gnulib > # between successive runs of this script. > find "$m4_base" "$source_base" \ > -depth \( -name '*.m4' -o -name '*.[ch]' \) \ > -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1 > > If it's not working for you, perhaps you've changed the definition > of source_base or you're using an inadequate version of find. > Otherwise, please investigate. The bootstrapping is performed on Debian GNU/Linux testing/Squeeze, so I doubt that "find" is at fault. I will try to dig further though. It did not matter if I brought the tree using "rsync -Ca" to OpenBSD, GNU/kFreeBSD, or GNU/Linux. The same error occurred. Best regards.
