Bug 43235 – [dev-lang/tk-8.3]: manpages linked using hardlinks -- waste of diskspace after compression

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 43231
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description bartron 2004-02-28 16:18:29 UTC]

[see bug #43231 for a more detailed description]

  Shortest possible patch

--- tk8.3.4/unix/mkLinks.orig
+++ tk8.3.4/unix/mkLinks
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 # The script takes one argument, which is the name of the directory
 # where the manual entries have been installed.

+set -e
+ln() { /bin/ln -sf "$@"; }
+
 if test $# != 1; then
     echo "Usage: mkLinks dir"
     exit 1

[Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-10-02 07:15:58 UTC]

Assigned to non-devs - reassigning so these may be noticed. 

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-11 11:52:30 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43231 ***