Re: GNU/KNetBSD self-hosting

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Robert Millan wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > # tar jtvf gnu-knetbsd.tar.bz2 ./lib/ld.so.1
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2003-12-04 22:23:44 ./lib/ld.so.1 -> l
> >
> > Warning: this tarball suffers from the "mysterious symlink bug" and
> > it's probably unusable.
>
> It should still work, since for some reason gnu ld.so.1 is merely decorative
> in our port :)
>
> No, really, I tested it (although not very extensively). You can test it in a
> chroot if you're unsure.

The ld.so.1 symlink was just an example. *All* symlinks in /lib are broken.
Try "tar jtvf gnu-knetbsd.tar.bz2 ./lib" and see it by yourself.