[Slackbuilds-users] Wrong symlinks in packages

[Francois Gingras]

Wait, why are you asking for help with salix packages on the SBo mailing
list?

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:47 PM Didier Spaier <didier at slint.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Today someone nicknamed Jardenblack posted this in a Salix forum:
> [quoted post]
> Here is a list of packages that have bad soft links and need to be fixed:
> fvwm95-2.0.43f-i486-2salix
> HawkNL-1.68-i486-1salix
> http-parser-2.7.1-i486-1salix
> libiptcdata-1.0.4-i486-2salix
> oss-4.2.2011-i586-1salix
> PDCurses-3.4-i486-1salix
> qt3-3.3.8b-i486-5salix
>
> example of the problem:
> ( cd usr/lib ; ln -sf
> /usr/src/slapt-src/libraries/PDCurses/package-PDCurses/usr/lib/libXCurses.so
> libXpanel.so )
>
> I found this problem searching thur the /var/log/scripts files. I hope
> this helps.
> [/quoted post]
>
> I couldn't answer because for an unknown reason the thread and the user
> disappeared.
>
> However I had a look at two cases and confirm the issue.
> For PDCurses the wrong links are mad by by install target in Makefile.in
> in the source archive as shown below
> install:
> <lines removed>
>         ln -f -s $(libdir)/$(SHLPRE)$(SHLFILE)$(SHLPST) \
>                 $(libdir)/$(SHLPRE)Xpanel$(SHLPST)
>         ln -f -s $(libdir)/libXCurses.a $(libdir)/libXpanel.a
>         -$(RANLIB) $(libdir)/libXpanel.a
> For fvwm95 the wrong link comes from the install target in
> sample.fvwmrc/Makefile.in in the source archive as sown below:
> install:
>         ${INSTALL_DATA} ${RC} ${fvwm_dir}
>         ${LN} ${fvwm_dir}/${RC} ${fvwm_dir}/${fvwm_rc}
> (LN is converted to ln -s during the build)
>
> I was too lazy to check the other packages (I don't use any of those
> listed by Jardenblack)
> but I assume that other packages have a similar issue, i.e. symlinks
> from a file in the build dir that will be broken as soon as the build
> dir is removed.
>
> Maybe the broken symlinks do not always hurt but still, a systematic
> check that the symlinks (in install/doinst.sh or /var/log/scripts) will
> survive the removal of the build dir could be useful?
>
> Best,
>
> Didier
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