Re: readlink

Joao Palhoto Matos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Uli Fahrenberg wrote:

> I do not follow teTeX development closely, so forgive me if this is
> fixed in current beta version already:
>
> The current teTeX release installs a readlink binary. On newer Linux
> systems, the coreutils package already provides a program with the same
> name and a superset of teTeX's readlink, which gets *overwritten* by the
> teTeX version.

Unless you use --prefix=/usr or your system readlink is in some non 
standard location this is unlikely if you make a default build of teTeX. 
E.g. Fedora Core 1:

> whereis readlink
readlink: /usr/bin/readlink /usr/share/man/man1/readlink.1.gz 
/usr/share/man/man2/readlink.2.gz

> rpm -qf /usr/bin/readlink
coreutils-5.0-34.1

ls -l /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/readlink
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 22355 May 14 15:54 
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/readlink

Are you using some packaged version of teTeX possibly "3rd party" with 
respect to your Linux distribution? You probably need to contact 
the maintainer of the packaged teTeX you are using.

-- 
João Palhoto Matos                    http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisboa                                     mailto:[email protected]
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