[PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-3413833 ] pd-extended tarbz2 build creates invalid symbolic link

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Bugs item #3413833, was opened at 2011-09-25 15:39
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Jacob Lee (arthurdenture)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: pd-extended tarbz2 build creates invalid symbolic link

Initial Comment:
I tried out the PACKAGE_TYPE=tarbz2 build and ran into another bug involving symbolic links.

My build command was "make PACKAGE_TYPE=tarbz2 install && make PACKAGE_TYPE=tarbz2 package". In the resulting tarball, bin/pd was a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin/pd-extended. Because the latter does not exist, "sudo make install" from the unpacked tarball failed:

jacob at deckard:~/pkg/Pd-0.43.1-extended-20110925$ sudo make install
install -d -m0755 '/usr/local/bin'
install -p 'bin/cyclist' '/usr/local/bin/cyclist'
install -p 'bin/pd' '/usr/local/bin/pd'
install: cannot stat `bin/pd': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

I'm not sure what the appropriate fix is. One (a patch for which I have attached) is to turn pd-extended into a relative instead of an absolute symbolic link. But if the intention was that the generated install makefile create $prefix/bin/pd as a symbolic link to $prefix/bin/pd-extended, then some more work would be needed to fix the install makefile, and that work might make my patch obsolete.

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