Re: prefix containing symlink

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Did you read the explanation that bootstrap printed below the error message? I had thought this would be reason enough to not override this check.

If you really want to run into these strange errors later, you can just remove the check from bootstrap/bootstrap. By adding this check I just tried to save you some hours from debugging this yourself.

The discussion happened on tech-pkg, as far as I remember, and it was decided to not offer an override option.

Roland

Am August 3, 2019 8:36:21 AM UTC schrieb "Jörn Clausen" <joernc%googlemail.com@localhost>:
>I probably missed the discussion for this change in
>bootstrap/bootstrap:
>
>revision 1.263
>date: 2019-05-01 20:29:20 +0200;  author: rillig;  state: Exp;  lines:
>+33 -4;  commitid: N2QfoUQUe0nh0xlB;
>bootstrap: prevent pkgsrcdir, prefix and wrkdir from being symlinks
>
>What is the rationale behind it? I was just about to install into an
>automounted directory and this prohibits it. Could you at least
>provide an option to override this?