[Slackbuilds-users] chmod invalid option -- 'h' when installing git-tools

[Андрей Рабусов]

It could be an alias too.

Heck, shall we use the `/usr/bin` prefix for all of the standard binaries
to prevent that?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 08:26 B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>
> >> https://slackbuilds.org/repository/15.0/development/git-tools/
> >>
> >> I get the above error after sudo ./git-tools.SlackBuild  I checked the
> >> script, but I cannot deduce what's wrong.  Because -h isn't an option
> for
> >> chmod or find.
> >>
> >> What do?
> >
> > use "su -" or "su", not "sudo"
>
> Actually, sudo is fine for SlackBuilds, provided your user has /sbin
> and /usr/sbin in $PATH. I wrote the git-tools SlackBuild, and I just
> built it with sudo, with no errors.
>
> To the OP: no idea why your chmod doesn't have -h option. I'm looking
> at "man chmod" and I see:
>
>         -h, --no-dereference
>                affect each symbolic link, rather than the referent
>
> Slackware 15.0 and -current both have the -h option to chmod, so your
> chmod must be something else.
>
> Check & see if you've done something like install busybox and put its
> binaries in $PATH before /bin and /usr/bin, maybe? As your user, what
> does "which chmod" say? Should be "/usr/bin/chmod".
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