Re: odd X11 symlinks in -current

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On 02.04.2009, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I have no idea why they are being created etc., but as they point at
> nothing they're clearly not correct.

I think they point to something (at least on 5.0_RC3):

$ ls -l /usr/X11R7/lib/libXaw*
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       9 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw.a -> libXaw8.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      10 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw.so -> libXaw8.so
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      12 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      12 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      12 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw.so.8 -> libXaw8.so.8
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw6.so.6 -> libXaw6.so.6.1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  252557 Mar 25 10:51 libXaw6.so.6.1
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  419866 Mar 25 10:52 libXaw7.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw7.so -> libXaw7.so.7.0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      14 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw7.so.7 -> libXaw7.so.7.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  358924 Mar 25 10:52 libXaw7.so.7.0
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  463658 Mar 25 10:52 libXaw7_p.a
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  460846 Mar 25 10:52 libXaw7_pic.a
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  427522 Mar 25 10:53 libXaw8.a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      11 Mar 25 10:55 libXaw_p.a -> libXaw8_p.a

Though perhaps not in intuitive manner.

- Jukka.