[x264-devel] x264 Install: Cannot Follow Symbolic Link

[Sean McGovern]

I'm sorry, I just thought about this a bit more and you may not actually be missing anything -- I have GNU install on both my SPARC and x86 Solaris machines via SunFreeware.com's coreutils package (Blastwave may have it as well). Can you install that on this system? It installs by default in /usr/local so you would either have to:

a) add /usr/local/bin to the PATH *before* /usr/sbin , which may cause other issues if you're not careful.

-- OR --

b) I had forgotten that I have patched Makefile in my local x264 checkout to instead use a $INSTALL variable (which is set to /usr/local/bin/install in my build script) instead of directly calling install. I sent a patch out for this over a year ago but it was rejected (most likely since Solaris is the only platform plagued with multiple 'install' utilities -- at least before Solaris 11).

Hope this helps.

-- Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Shalom Levytam <research at the10thfloor.com>
Sender: x264-devel-bounces at videolan.org
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:44:52 
To: Mailing list for x264 developers<x264-devel at videolan.org>
Reply-To: Mailing list for x264 developers <x264-devel at videolan.org>
Subject: Re: [x264-devel] x264 Install: Cannot Follow Symbolic Link

Hi Sean,

Thanks for the reply.  I believe my paths to be setup correctly.

[quickt at fe43xaab ~/x264]$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/xpg4/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
[quickt at fe43xaab ~/x264]$ sudo su
[root at fe43xaab ~/x264]# echo $PATH
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
[root at fe43xaab ~/x264]#

It seems to be like maybe files its looking for are in fact missing...

[quickt at fe43xaab /usr/lib]$ ls -lt llib-lx*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          23 Nov  7 08:50 llib-lxnet.ln -> ../../lib/llib-lxnet.ln
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          20 Nov  7 08:50 llib-lxnet -> ../../lib/llib-lxnet
[quickt at fe43xaab /usr/lib]$ cd ..
[quickt at fe43xaab /usr]$ cd ..
[quickt at fe43xaab /]$ cd lib
[quickt at fe43xaab /lib]$ ls -lt llib-lx*
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       247309 Aug  4  2009 llib-lxml2.ln
[quickt at fe43xaab /lib]$

Any help is much appreciated,

slevytam


On 2011-03-15, at 2:24 PM, Sean McGovern wrote:

> OK I think I know what is going on here:
> 
> Please ensure that your PATH does not contain /usr/ucb while building. /usr/ucb/install is not the same as POSIX or GNU install.
> 
> Maybe you should also read:
> 
> man -s 5 standards
> 
> Particularly under the "Utilities" heading as it explains how PATH should be properly configured for either XPG3, XPG4, or POSIX.1/SUSv3 behaviour. In all 3 cases, /usr/ucb is not specifically required.
> 
> -- Sean
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shalom Levytam <research at the10thfloor.com>
> Sender: x264-devel-bounces at videolan.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:11:38 
> To: Mailing list for x264 developers<x264-devel at videolan.org>
> Reply-To: Mailing list for x264 developers <x264-devel at videolan.org>
> Subject: Re: [x264-devel] x264 Install: Cannot Follow Symbolic Link
> 
> That's strange.  I've pasted it again.  
> 
> http://pastebin.com/pFHzrnuF
> 
> Hopefully this time it works!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> slevytam
> 
> 
> On 2011-03-15, at 8:32 AM, Sean McGovern wrote:
> 
>> That is an unknown paste ID.
>> 
>> -- Sean
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shalom Levytam <research at the10thfloor.com>
>> Sender: x264-devel-bounces at videolan.org
>> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:27:51 
>> To: <x264-devel at videolan.org>
>> Reply-To: Mailing list for x264 developers <x264-devel at videolan.org>
>> Subject: [x264-devel] x264 Install: Cannot Follow Symbolic Link
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm getting numerous "cannot follow symbolic link" errors when trying to install x264 on Solaris.
>> 
>> Here's what I'm seeing: http://pastebin.com/bGnGuuMh
>> 
>> Can anyone be of help?  
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> slevytam
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