[tin-bugs] [PATCH] create relative symlinks when installing man pages

[Brett A C Sheffield]

Greetings,

The changes to src/Makefile.in in 2.6.5 now creates absolute symlinks when
installing man pages. This doesn't play nicely with distribution packaging where
the installation is first performed in a sandbox directory before being
installed by the packaging system.  I hit this problem while updating the
package version for Gentoo Linux.

This can be fixed by creating relative symlinks instead with the -r option.
See attached patch.

Cheers,


Brett
-- 
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Librecast - Decentralising the Internet with Multicast
https://librecast.net/
https://blog.brettsheffield.com/
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# create relative symlinks instead of absolute
--- a/src/Makefile.in	2026-07-16 21:09:38.220815650 -0000
+++ b/src/Makefile.in	2026-07-16 21:14:08.738660301 -0000
@@ -373,13 +373,13 @@
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(INSTALL) -m 444 $(POMANDIR)/$${lang}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 				$(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} && \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(RM) -f $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}/man$${manext}/r$(PROJECT).$${manext} && \
-	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(LN) $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
+	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(LN) -r $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 				$(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}/man$${manext}/r$(PROJECT).$${manext} ;\
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			mkdir -p $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext} ; \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(INSTALL) -m 444 $(POMANDIR)/$${lang}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 				$(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} && \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(RM) -f $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext}/r$(PROJECT).$${manext} && \
-	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(LN) $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
+	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 			$(LN) -r $(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext}/$(PROJECT).$${manext} \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 				$(DEST_MAN)/$${lang}$(UTF8SUFF)/man$${manext}/r$(PROJECT).$${manext} ;\
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 		fi; \
 	@MSG_DIR_MAKE@ 	done; \