Re: configure: readlink problem

[Matthias Kilian]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
> > The -f option tells readlink to rekursively resolv all links and find
> >the file which the link finally points to. Without the -f readlink just
> >just gives you what this link points to.
> 
> Hmm.  FreeBSD's readlink doesn't have any option like that.

Workaround (untested):

f=(whatever)
while [ -h "$f" ]; do
        f=$(readlink "$f")
done

Ciao,
        Kili

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