Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Petr Pisar CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] 8.30-RC1 test release
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Petr Pisar wrote:
> There is a problem when installing manual pages. The symlink values embed
> DESTDIR. Actually the symlinks should be relative. Following patch fixes it.
Thanks. You have exposed my ignorance of the way the ln command works. I
assumed that it would check for the existence of the first argument
before creating the link, and therefore that one would have to name an
existing file. I have now read "man ln" and discovered that my belief
applies only to hard links.
