[OS X TeX] An issue with the symlink /Library/teTeX

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Fri Nov 19 08:49:20 CET 2004


On 18 Nov 2004, at 20:25, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> []
>> Is there something obvious I've missed? Is this the normal behaviour 
>> of symlinks? Does this mean hard links should be used instead?
>
> It is a problem with absolute paths in symlinks. Relative paths should 
> be used instead:
>
> Instead of what is done right now:
>
> /Library/teTeX -> /usr/local/teTeX
>
> it would be better to have
>
> /Library/teTeX -> ../../usr/local/teTeX

I'll make that change.

G

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