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RE: slaptools should be symlinked with -f option (ITS#3070)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-bugs@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of duke@sigsegv.at

> Full_Name: Thomas Hager
> Version: HEAD
> OS: Linux
> URL: http://www.sigsegv.at/dev/thomas-hager-040408.patch
> Submission from: (NULL) (213.164.4.98)
>
>
> SLAPTOOLS should be symlinked with the -f option. when i'm
> packaging OpenLDAP,
> slapd is not at the desired location ( $(libexecdir)/slapd )
> at the time the
> symlinks are created.
>
> i'm attaching a patch which adds the -f option to the call to ln in
> servers/slapd/Makefile.in.
> this patch fixes a small syntax error in the same line, too.

I've fixed the missing semicolon. I don't understand your issue with the -f
option; it doesn't matter if the target of a symbolic link exists or not. Any
existing links were explicitly rm'd before, so -f doesn't accomplish
anything.

  -- Howard Chu
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