cygport chases symlink loop infintely

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Sun May 6 21:26:00 GMT 2012


On 2012-04-04 15:26, Warren Young wrote:
> There's something about the way I have one of my development systems set
> up that causes Cygport to chase a symlink loop infinitely in the "Fixing
> libtool modules:" step of "cygport install".
>
> It apparently has something to do with the fact that the source for the
> package in question lives under /usr/local/src, and I've symlinked src
> into my home directory so I can "cd ~/src/somepackage".

Please try "cygport --debug [.cygport file] install" and see where this 
is happening.  In the meantime, using a user mount instead of a symlink 
may help.


Yaakov



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