Recursive Directory Link - libxml-devel

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 01:11 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:56, Mike Klinke wrote:
> >Ran into this link this evening
> >
> ># ll /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml
> >....Nov 17 23:31 /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml -> .
> 
> >Is this an oversight that should be posted in bugzilla or is there a
> >valid use for this self-referencing construction?  It seems a bug
> >to me but .....

It's a compatibility thing.

The headers in that directory can be accessed in two ways:

#include <gnome-xml/example.h>
#include <gnome-xml/libxml/example.h>

One of them is probably deprecated but the symlink allows both to work
without having to duplicate the files.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>