hard links in llvm39 and binutils

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 26 10:13:14 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:54:27PM -0800, john--- via freebsd-ports wrote:
> Both llvm39 and binutils failed to install recently because they both have
> hard links that cross directories. On this machine, those directories, both
> in /usr/local on on different zfs filesystems.
> 
> I've had this directory structure for several years without issue, so this use
> of hard links is new.
> 
> Is this use of hard links something I should expect to see looking forward or
> is it an error?

Some cross directory hardlinks in llvm## have been around since at least
October 2013.  Without a specific example I can't say more.

-- Brooks
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