[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Portability fixes for makepkg

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Jeremy Huntwork
<jhuntwork at lightcubesolutions.com> wrote:
> On 5/8/12 4:16 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>> ls -lR pkg/usr/share/man/
>>
>> pkg/usr/share/man/:
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 allan allan 4096 May  8 18:02 man1
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 allan allan 4096 May  8 18:02 man5
>>
>> pkg/usr/share/man/man1:
>> total 12
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 allan allan   32 May  8 18:02 gimp.1.gz ->
>> usr/share/man/man1/gimp-2.8.1.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 allan allan 4531 May  8 18:02 gimp-2.8.1.gz
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 allan allan   21 May  8 18:02 gimp-console.1.gz ->
>> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 allan allan   32 May  8 18:02 gimp-console-2.8.1.gz ->
>> usr/share/man/man1/gimp-2.8.1.gz
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 allan allan   17 May  8 18:02 gimptool.1.gz ->
>> gimptool-2.0.1.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 allan allan 2098 May  8 18:02 gimptool-2.0.1.gz
>>
>> pkg/usr/share/man/man5:
>> total 8
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 allan allan 7000 May  8 18:02 gimprc-2.8.5.gz
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 allan allan   34 May  8 18:02 gimprc.5.gz ->
>> usr/share/man/man5/gimprc-2.8.5.gz
>
>
> Sorry, but the failure here isn't obvious to me. Is it that
> gimp-console-2.8.1.gz is symlinked to gimp-2.8.1.gz?
>
> What does the directory structure look like before compression?

It looks to me like it is symlinked to a relative path that makes no
sense; e.g., will be resolved like this:
/usr/share/man/man1/gimp-console-2.8.1.gz ->
/usr/share/man/man1/usr/share/man/man1/gimp-2.8.1.gz

-Dan