[systemd-devel] [PATCH] build-sys: Fix move-to-rootlibdir

[Mike Gilbert]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 11.03.14 18:14, Mike Gilbert (floppym at gentoo.org) wrote:
>>
>>> Since we now use ln -s --relative, using this sed statement is redundant
>>> and causes broken symlinks to be installed.
>>
>> Hmm, wouldn't it be nicer to just drop the --relative here?
>>
>> Quite honestly, I don't grok the code, neither the old nor the new one...
>>
>
> I'm having a hard time understanding the original code myself, but I
> think it is supposed to create a relative symlink without using ln
> --relative. It would probably break if rootlibdir is not a directory
> immediately under the root directory (/).
>

Scratch that last sentence; it should work fine so long as rootlibdir
begins with a slash.