Installing applet links as softlinks

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Mar 23 23:15:27 UTC 2006


On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:48 am, Alexander Griesser wrote:
> Alexander Griesser wrote:
> > When I then copy the new busybox binary to the thinclient and do
> > "busybox --install", no symlinks are generated, instead only hardlinks
> > were created.
>
> Ah, ok, I found the "problem".
> When there are old hardlinks available, the symlinks get not created.
> And --install only makes hardlinks (although not configured in the
> menuconfig process), whereas --install -s helps...
>
> Is this the wanted behaviour?
>
> ciao,

I never personally used --install and hadn't noticed that the change to the 
installation thingy changed the default.  I need to put that in the release 
notes...

Rob
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