Re: Bug in FreeBSD apsfilter-7.2.1--/etc/apsfilter/basedir point

[John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2002.02.06 10:30 Michael Loßin wrote:
> On 06-Feb-02 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> > Subject says it all.  :)  Even if I change the basedir symlink to
> point
> > to ${LOCALBASE}/share/apsfilter, on the very next invocation of
> SETUP
> > the basedir symlink is set to point to itself.  :)
> 
> That's not a bug, that's a feature :)
> 
> No really, SETUP re-creates the link to point to the correct
> directory, and if that messes up your particular setup, I guess
> you've done a mistake during configuration.
> 
> You're not supposed to change the link by hand, since the
> respective directories are determined by ./configure:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man
> 
> is what I use on my Linux box, so I use /usr/share/apsfilter
> as the base directory.
> 
> Every time SETUP is called, the link /etc/apsfilter/basedir
> will be forced to point to /usr/share/apsfilter (which is the
> correct destination).
> 
> I don't know why there's any need for you to change that behaviour,
> and if the link turns out to point to itself, there's something
> seriously wrong anyway.
> 
> Which configure options do you use to create such a mess? :)
> 
> 
> Michael
> 

I built it from the print/apsfilter port in the FreeBSD ports tree.  
Looking at the top-level Makefile in the ports tree, it appears to run 
apsfilter's configure without arguments.  :)
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