[MacPorts] #64691: thunar @1.6.16: too many levels of symbolic links

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#64691: thunar @1.6.16: too many levels of symbolic links
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 Reporter:  CharlesHawkins  |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect          |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal          |  Milestone:
Component:  ports           |    Version:  2.7.1
 Keywords:                  |       Port:  thunar
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 When installing thunar @1.6.16, I get a warning:

 {{{
 Warning: Error parsing file /opt/local/bin/thunar: Error opening or
 reading file
 }}}

 Upon trying to launch thunar I get:

 {{{
 zsh: too many levels of symbolic links: thunar
 }}}

 I think the problem is that I'm on a case-insensitive filesystem (the
 default for APFS). Based on the output of {{{port contents thunar}}},
 there's supposed to be both an /opt/local/bin/thunar and an
 /opt/local/bin/Thunar, but I only see the capitalized Thunar actually
 there, and it's a symlink to the lower-case thunar, which the case-
 insensitive filesystem interprets as a symlink to itself, hence the error.
 I'm guessing that the install process first created the real executable
 thunar, then tried to create Thunar as a symlink to thunar, but ended up
 clobbering the real executable because the filesystem is case-insensitive.

 There doesn't seem to be a log file to attach ({{{port logfile thunar}}}
 says there isn't one; {{{install -v}}} doesn't give any more info)

 System info:

 macOS 12.0.1 (21A559)

 MacBookPro14,1 (an Intel Mac)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/64691>
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