Re: gettext-0.11.5: "make install" breaks system

[Bruno Haible]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:
> On SGI IRIX 6.5, a build and installation of gettext-0.11.5 broke the
> operating system because of this step in the installation:
> 
>       (cd /usr/local/lib && rm -f libintl.so.3 && ln -s libintl.so.3.0 
> libintl.so.3)
>       859842:ln: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 
> 'libintl.so.3'
> The removal of libintl.so.3 prevents ln from running

Thanks for the report. I apologize for the damage. This patch should fix it.

Bruno


*** ltmain.sh   6 Feb 2002 12:18:16 -0000       1.7
--- ltmain.sh   16 Sep 2002 16:56:05 -0000
***************
*** 4210,4217 ****
            for linkname
            do
              if test "$linkname" != "$realname"; then
!               $show "(cd $destdir && $rm $linkname && $LN_S $realname 
$linkname)"
!               $run eval "(cd $destdir && $rm $linkname && $LN_S $realname 
$linkname)"
              fi
            done
          fi
--- 4210,4217 ----
            for linkname
            do
              if test "$linkname" != "$realname"; then
!               $show "(cd $destdir && $LN_S -f $realname $linkname)"
!               $run eval "(cd $destdir && $LN_S -f $realname $linkname)"
              fi
            done
          fi