[38067] trunk/dports/lang

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> +    ln -s ${prefix}/bin/perl${version} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/$name
> 
> Wouldn't a relative link have sufficed or is an absolute reference  
> necessary? Just curious.
> 
> ln -s perl${version} ${destroot}${prefix}/bin/$name

Right, that should have been sufficient as well. But should I change it 
now and increment the revision one more time?

There are also other ports using absolute paths for symlinks and I don't 
think it is wrong to do so. The ${prefix} is not intended to be 
relocatable. Do you see any problem with absolute symlink paths?

For example from my MacPorts installation:
$ find /opt/local/bin -type l |wc -l
      200
$ find /opt/local/bin -type l |xargs readlink |grep ^/opt/local |wc -l
       60

Rainer