Bug#139054: [ray.miller@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk: texlinks patch]

[Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>]

> ...which is the last thing called from main(). Consequently, the
> script exits 1. However, this was not an error condition - symlinkdir

Sorry. I now know why I could not reproduce your problem. I have checked
with a later version of texlinks which ends with

  main "$@"
  exit 0

and does no longer have the problem you describe. So, be assured that
this problem will be fixed in the next version of teTeX.

> The second problem is more subtle, and I agree with you that my patch
> does the wrong thing. For a reason I have yet to determine, the line
>
> test "x$src" != "x`(ls -ld $src | awk '{print $NF}') 2>/dev/null`" &&
>     verbose_do rm -f "$src";
>
> was not removing a pre-existing symbolic link. I'll see if I can
> reproduce this error and determine how it was triggered.

Ok, please let me know if you find out more about it.

Thanks for your detailed description of the problems which was very
precise.

Thomas