On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:20:55PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 17:00 +0300, nezmer@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi , > > I was looking at the device-mapper PKGBUILD . I'm not sure but the last > > line looks problematic : > > > > # fix device-mapper link bug > > ln -sf /lib/libdevmapper.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libdevmapper.so" || return 1 > > > > What If device-mapper is not yet installed in the system ? > > What am I missing ? > > There will be a symlink in /usr/lib/libdevmapper.so that links > to /lib/libdevmapper.so, whether this file exists or not. When the > package is installed, this file exists because it is included inside the > package. > aha . Lesson of the day : We can link non-existing files . Thank you for the clarification .