[GRASS5] GRASS57: debian package build : dead symbolic links to 5.3 sources

[Moritz Lennert]

Markus Neteler said:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:25:10PM +0100, Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to use dpkg-buildpackage on 5.7. However, I have the following
>> problem:
>> in debian/rules the following defines the location of the 5.3 sources:
GRASS53SRC=../grass-5.3.0
>> this is correct for me as I have:
>> $ ls -l
>> total 20
>> drwxr-xr-x   23 mlennert mlennert     4096 2004-01-05 15:40 grass
drwxr-xr-x   21 mlennert mlennert     4096 2004-01-27 16:10 grass51
lrwxrwxrwx    1 mlennert mlennert        5 2004-01-27 15:24 grass-5.3.0
->
>> grass
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 mlennert mlennert        7 2004-01-27 15:24 grass-5.7.0 ->
>> grass51
>> However, in grass-5.7.0/include I have a series of dead links pointing to
>> ../grass-5.3.0/src/include/*.h
>> This should be ../../grass-5.3.0/src/include/*.h
>> Where can I change the links that are created ?
>
> In grass51/debian/rules you find the configuration. It seems,
> that
>  - the link trick above doesn't work with 'make mix' done in
>    grass51/debian/rules
>  - something else not right.
>
> Did you try to rename the dirs instead of linking?

I did and it doesn't work either, i.e. the links in grass-5.7.0/include
are again to ../grass-5.3.0 and not to ../../grass-5.3.0.

I solved the problem by replacing the relative path for

#path to GRASS 5.3 source code
GRASS53SRC=

to an absolute path.

Moritz