From: "Björn Raupach" <raupach@e2n.de>
To: "kawa@sourceware.org" <kawa@sourceware.org>
Subject: symlink problems with mac os
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7DC458EC-78C0-40B3-871F-5B0E72E43CF5@e2n.de> (raw)
Hi there,
on macOS High Sierra (10.13) the kawa bash script does’t work with symbolic links.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Download and extract kawa-3.0.zip to a folder $KAWA_HOME
2) Open a terminal, create a symlink, execute symlink
$ ln -s $KAWA_HOME/bin/kawa kawa
$ ./kawa
readlink: illegal option — f
usage: readlink [-n] [file …]
Error: Could not find or load main class kawa.repl
$
Cause:
The readlink version of macOS isn’t the same as GNU/Linux one. The latter version does follow symlinks with -f. The macOS one does not support this feature.
I stumbled upon this while working on a port for MacPorts<https://www.macports.org> Should make kawa easier to install and upgrade on macOS. (Of course it is already simple enough being a jar file and such…)
Found a related discussion on SO<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055671/how-can-i-get-the-behavior-of-gnus-readlink-f-on-a-mac>.
with kind regards,
Björn Raupach
next reply other threads:[~2017-10-22 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-22 12:00 Björn Raupach [this message]
2017-10-22 12:54 ` Per Bothner
2017-10-22 13:05 ` Björn Raupach
2017-10-22 17:40 ` Per Bothner
2017-10-22 18:15 ` Björn Raupach
2017-10-22 18:31 ` Per Bothner
2017-10-22 22:10 ` Per Bothner
2017-10-23 6:47 ` Björn Raupach
2017-10-23 16:55 ` Per Bothner
2017-10-30 15:15 ` Björn Raupach
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