Hi, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:08:51PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:19:58 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >The libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-14 package contains a broken >> >libstdc++ library. To work around the problem, provide the missing >> >library by a smbolic link. Execute as root: >> > >> >ln -sf libstdc++-3libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 >> >> My daddy always told me, 'when you get to a fork in the road, pick it >> up'. Will you please explain the -f option? man ln sz 'remove existing >> destination files', but I don't know what that means. > > It means that, if the destination file > (/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3) already exists, then it'll be > removed first and then the symlink will be created in its place. > Otherwise you'll get: > > ln: `/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3': File exists > > ... if it's already there. > > So 'ln -sf foo bar' is equivalent to 'rm -f bar; ln -s foo bar'. And it is a perversion to use 'ln -sf foo bar'. Use ln -f -s foo bar and live happily knowing that you didn't create a link named "foo" pointing to "f" :-) 'ln -sf' is a GNU ln extension. It is safer to use 'ln -f -s', especially if you traffic on other unices. - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
