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Bug#231015: libm.so: symlink should be relative



On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 05:35, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > But it seems debian glibc package debian/compat=4, and
> > rules.d/debhelper.ml has "dh_link -p$(curpass)".  Maybe package has
> > bug in rules.
> 
> This is not dh_link issue.  We don't use libc6-dev.link for
> /usr/lib/libm.so because "../../libm.so" is generated during glibc
> build, and we put them to /usr/lib directly.

But we call dh_link anyway for that package.  According to the man page,
it really ought to take care of it for us.

> In addition, I think it's good idea to put general program which
> resolves from relative path to absolute path like "BSD readlink -f".
> Unfortunatelly GNU readlink -f returns ENOENT if the real path is not
> existed, and "realpath -s" returns the same path.

I don't have my posix handy - is GNU readlink buggy?

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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