[GRASS5] Re: 5.3: hard links vs soft links

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 03:28:36PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> The recent change to soft links seems to cause problems
> also in 5.3. I just received a mail from a user who
> downloaded the auto-generated CVS-Linux-binaries from the GRASS site.
> 
> Obviously the links are not set correctly (example):
> 
> /usr/local/grass53/bin/g.gisenv-> /hardmnt/grass0/neteler/grass_cvs_53exp_pserver_latest/grass-build/dist.i686-pc-linux-gnu/etc/front.end
> 
> It seems more work is needed to make soft links possible (with shared
> libs). I'll revert the change for now.

OK, maybe it's not related to shared libs.

Probably we should change
src/CMD/generic/MAKELINKS.sh
  ln -s $GISBASE/etc/front.end $GISBASE/bin/$i

to use relative links instead of $GISBASE?

Markus