I don’t think that should happen! Certainly a link like that does nothing
useful, just causes errors. For example:
sh-3.2$ ln -s bogus bogus
sh-3.2$ ln -s '' bogus2
sh-3.2$ ls -l bogus*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rlhamil wheel 5 Jan 6 13:39 bogus -> bogus
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rlhamil wheel 0 Jan 6 13:40 bogus2 ->
sh-3.2$ ls -lL bogus*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rlhamil wheel 5 Jan 6 13:39 bogus -> bogus
lrwxr-xr-x 1 rlhamil wheel 0 Jan 6 13:40 bogus2 ->
ls: bogus: Too many levels of symbolic links
ls: bogus2: No such file or directory
Ordinarily you can remove a bad symlink, i.e. per the above example
sh-3.2$ rm bogus bogus2
But I don’t recommend that here (see below).
python3 is optional and a selectable way to provide a default shorter name, and
resolves to one of the python 3 versions as shown below:
sh-3.2$ port select --list python3
Available versions for python3:
none (active)
python310
python311
python34
python36
python37
python38
python39
sh-3.2$ port select --show python3
The currently selected version for 'python3' is 'none'.
You can choose one of those listed (including none, to get rid of the links)
with something like (with then last argument being one of the above ports that
you have installed):
sh-3.2$ sudo port select --set python3 python39
Rather than removing the bad link directly, I’d do
sh-3.2$ sudo port select --set python3 none
(so that any record keeping is also updated, and any other associated links are
also cleaned up) I might do that before I did it again with some value other
than “none” if I wanted that end result, just to be paranoid.
Only if selecting “none” fails (I don’t know how much error checking is done)
would I delete the link with “rm”.
> On Jan 6, 2023, at 1:30 PM, list_email--- via macports-users
> <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote:
>
> /opt/local/bin/python3 is a symlink that points to itself (Path Finder) or to
> nowhere (Finder). Is that correct?
>
> Jerry
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