[openssl-users] Symlinks STILL broken in 1.0.2e

[Norm Green]

Are these sym links going to remain this way in subsequent releases?  Or 
will they revert back to the way they were in 1.0.2d? Merging changes 
like this into svn is a pain because it causes conflicts.

Norm Green

On 12/3/15 13:31, Matt Caswell wrote:
>
> On 03/12/15 21:27, Norm Green wrote:
>> There are still many broken symbolic links in the new 1.0.2e tarball:
>>
>> Example:
>>> ls -l ./test/ecdsatest.c
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 normg smalltalk 42 Dec  3 06:44 ./test/ecdsatest.c ->
>> openssl-1.0.2e/../crypto/ecdsa/ecdsatest.c
>>> cat ./test/ecdsatest.c
>> cat: ./test/ecdsatest.c: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> find . -type l -! -exec test -e {} \; -print
>> ./apps/md4.c
>> ./test/ssltest.c
>> ./test/bftest.c
>> ./test/md4test.c
>> ./test/casttest.c
>> ./test/rmdtest.c
>> ./test/verify_extra_test.c
>> ./test/dsatest.c
>> ./test/rc4test.c
>> ./test/v3nametest.c
>> ./test/sha256t.c
>> ./test/srptest.c
>> ./test/shatest.c
>> ./test/enginetest.c
>> ./test/heartbeat_test.c
>> ./test/md5test.c
>> ./test/md2test.c
>> ./test/wp_test.c
>> ./test/destest.c
>> ./test/hmactest.c
>> ./test/bntest.c
>> ./test/sha512t.c
>> ./test/ideatest.c
>> ./test/ecdsatest.c
>> ./test/randtest.c
>> ./test/jpaketest.c
>> ./test/clienthellotest.c
>> ./test/evp_extra_test.c
>> ./test/dhtest.c
>> ./test/sha1test.c
>> ./test/rsa_test.c
>> ./test/evp_test.c
>> ./test/ecdhtest.c
>> ./test/mdc2test.c
>> ./test/rc5test.c
>> ./test/rc2test.c
>> ./test/ectest.c
>> ./test/exptest.c
>> ./test/constant_time_test.c
>>
>> Will there be a 3rd 1.0.2e tarball released to fix this?
> The sym links are not required to successfully build - they get
> recreated anyway when you run "Configure". I've had some reports of some
> versions of tar (the one I've heard of is on mingw) complaining about
> the sym links but actually all the files are extracted ok, and it is
> perfectly possible to successfully build. As its a relatively minor
> issue I'm currently minded to stick with what we've got.
>
> Matt
>
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