Re: Symbolic link & Xcode install
Re: Symbolic link & Xcode install
- Subject: Re: Symbolic link & Xcode install
- From: Philipp Donzé <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:07:49 +0200
Hi Ashley,
I actually chose the boot partition for the install (it allowed me to
do that even though /Developer was not on that partition). The
install completed without error but Xcode is still 1.1. I guess it
just can't find the app across a symbolic link (must be trying hard to
do that ;-) and so doesn't update the app itself.
Probably it's a problem with the symbolic link, there exist 3 different
types of symbolic links:
1. a link created using the Finder (dragging a file while pressing
CMD+ALT)
2. a soft link created using the command-line utility: "ln -s <source>
<link>"
3. a hard link created using the same command-line: "ln <source>
<link>"
(only allowed for files on the same partition!)
I encountered the same problem with "type 1" links when using Apache
web services: "the link just doesn't work". When I replaced the "type
1" link (=Finder link / "Alias") with "type 2" link (=soft link)
everything went well.
I don't understand why the Finder creates it's own type of link. (I
suppose this is a compatibility issue with "Classic" / OS 9 environment
because HFS has introduced it's own type of link a long time ago.)
Cheers,
Philipp
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