On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:15:40 -0500 (EST)  Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Because of the above symlinks almost every "make install" also reports:
> 
> missing: ./etc (not created: File exists)
> [[ rest deleted ]]

It's almost like mtree needs a dereference option so that it checks the
target of the symlink.  The same problem exists (or at least used to -
I stopped running /etc/daily a while ago) with /usr/src and /usr/obj if
they are symlinks.  Another thing to look at one day :-)

Simon