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List:       fink-beginners
Subject:    Re: [Fink-beginners] compiling: kdelibs3-unified-3.5.9-3 failed
From:       Martin Costabel <costabel () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2008-10-28 11:35:20
Message-ID: 4906F8F8.10107 () wanadoo ! fr
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Steffen Losch wrote:
> Thank you, that did the trick. It would be helpful to also add where  
> this symbolic should be created:
> 
> So you first want to change to
> 
> cd /usr/X11/lib/

No, this is not necessary.

> and then do the
> 
> sudo ln -s libXrandr.2.dylib /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.0.0.dylib

The source of the symlink is given by a relative path name here, 
relative to the directory where the target is created, not to where the 
command is issued. (Somewhat confusingly, in a symlink a->b, which is 
created by the command `ln -s b a`, b is called "source" and a, "target".)

-- 
Martin


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