Bug 184862

Summary:	glibc installs broken symlinks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Freeman <rich0>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Richard Freeman gentoo-dev

2007-07-10 16:17:33 UTC

My /usr is a symlink to /data/usr, which normally should work fine.  However, glibc installs symlinks to ../../lib64/soname in /usr/lib64 - which doesn't work if /usr isn't in the root.

Workaround is to create a symlink in /data to /lib64 - or to just create new links manually.

Ideally the symlinks installed by glibc should point to the "correct" lib directory - I'm not sure if this is easy to do without breaking something else, so if you can't fix I'll understand...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-10 18:23:12 UTC

Don't symlink /usr, it's completely broken idea.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 112413 ***