Re: Fixed libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package

[Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>]

Hi,

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu> writes:
>
>> 'ln -sf' is a GNU ln extension.  It is safer to use 'ln -f -s',
>> especially if you traffic on other unices.
>
> Huh?  It's worked perfectly well on every Unix I've ever used.  It
> even works on SCO.  Next you'll be telling us that we can't do "ls
> -al" we need to do "ls -a -l".

I meant the ordering of '-s' and '-f'.

'ln -sf' doesn't work on SunOS, IIRC.  'ln -f -s' does.  Maybe 'ln
-fs' works everywhere too.

- Hari
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Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu