[GRASS5] 5.3: hard links vs soft links

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:05:49AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> 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
> > > 
> > > Oops. These should be relative links, i.e.:
> > > 
> > > 	/usr/local/grass53/bin/g.gisenv -> ../etc/front.end
> > > 
> > > Try the attached patch (I don't have time to fix it in CVS right now).
> > 
> > Currently I have no 5.3 which I can use to try. 
> > Anyone else who can confirm that the proposed patch is ok?
> > 
> > Or, we submit it to CVS and see what happens.
> 
> I've committed it to CVS.

Thanks. I have committed an equivalent change to 5.7.

Markus