Creating symlinks to files that don't exist

[David Liontooth]

Boey Maun Suang wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2007, at 15:39, David Liontooth wrote:
>
>>> - ln uses new symlink command so it can create symlinks that point to
>>>      files that don't actually exist (eridius r24444).
>>
>> How is this done? It would come in extremely handy.
>
> It looks to me from the changeset [1] that you just use "ln -s
> <source> <target>" in a Portfile (i.e. _without_ wrapping it as an
> argument to a "system" command, as this has effectively already been
> done).  If eridius knows otherwise, he'll probably pop up and say so.
Thank you Maun Suang. I realized after asking that this is the default
behavior.

Best wishes,
Dave