Bug 419337 – media-libs/libgphoto2 installs recursive loop symlink - /usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-06-02 11:01:32 UTC]

 $ ll /usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Apr 30 17:14 /usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2 -> ./

Can we fix this or is this by design?

[Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2012-06-04 06:58:07 UTC]

This is by design, look at libgphoto2's Makefile.am:

########################################################################
# Compatibility for header inclusions.
#
# - Old code has -I/usr/include/gphoto2
#   #include <gphoto2-camera.h>
#
# - New code has -I/usr/include
#   #include <gphoto2/gphoto2-camera.h>

install-data-local:
        rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/gphoto2/gphoto2
        $(INSTALL) -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/gphoto2
        $(LN_S) . $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/gphoto2/gphoto2


Not sure how useful that design is for Gentoo though...

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2012-06-04 09:43:53 UTC]

If it doesn't cause problems for us, I would leave it as is (as upstream wants)

[Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2012-06-04 10:09:51 UTC]

No, there aren't any problems. Just when grepping in /usr/include it pops up

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2012-06-30 12:30:52 UTC]

In this case, please report this directly to upstream, we will follow it if they drop that link, thanks