cross-port ${filespath} access?

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Tue Apr 14 09:45:20 PDT 2015


Hi,

----- On 14 Apr, 2015, at 18:02, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:

> Erm, you may have noticed that I've been spending a lot of time working on the
> Qt ports, so if those symlinks are created by qt4-mac or qt5-mac they do kind
> of relate to my use cases :)

I was talking about your use case of symlinking files/, not any of the other use
cases you might have.

> Would it be better if the port:qtN-mac created an empty directory instead of
> that symlink and the style port (QtCurve) created a symlink to the actual
> plugin rather than to the plugin directory?

No. Do not modify upstream packaging to work around a bug in trace mode.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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