Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Re: Bug#264566: Any progress on grass 5.7?
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:49:35 -0400
Steve Halasz <debian@adkgis.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:24, Hamish wrote:
> > > package-contains-hardlink
> > > Nothing can be done about these I think. All the grass binaries are
> > > hard-linked together. There is one binary that decides what to do
> > > based on the name it's called with.
> >
> >
> > Just to note the "all" is not correct. These days most of the stuff in
> > $GISBASE/bin/ is softlinked, but there are a few oddballs still
> > hardlinked.
>
> When I invoke "ls -i" in /usr/lib/grass57/bin all the files(with the
> exception of nviz and tcltkgrass) have the same inode number. I take
> that to mean they are hardlinked. I have investigated the source and
> this is central to how grass handles calls to its modules.
Ok. This was changed after 5.7.0 was released.
(all the new softlinks just point to -> ../etc/front.end)
Hamish
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