From: "Brian Kendrick" <kendrick@chemsun.chem.umn.edu> Subject: Re: Help! "error creating symbolic link" ... Date: 15 Mar 1993 19:04:32 -0500
Dear Tom,
You recently asked:
| I just recently got the SLS distribution of Linux for tsx-11.mit.edu
|as of 3/14/93. Installion went fine up to the c3 disk. When it tried to
|install the inc43 package it gave the error "error creating symbolic
|link ../src/linux <more path stuff here> FILE EXISTS.
| Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? I basically
|can't compile anything with my system right now because it can't find all
|the include files and such. Is this a bug with the new SLS distribution?
|Any help would be wonderful.
I ran into the same problem. If you ls /usr/include/linux you will find
only three files (I believe). These three files and the rest of the
library are in /usr/src/linux/include/linux (ls and see). What I did to
fix the problem is first do rm -R /usr/include/linux. This will delete
the three files and the directory /usr/include/linux. Then do
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include. This will create a
symbolic link and a directory /usr/include/linux will appear. When
you ls /usr/include/linux you will now see all the library files in
/usr/src/linux/include/linux. That should fix it and you should now be
able to compile (it worked for me).
Hope it works,
Brian Kendrick
kendrick@chemsun.chem.umn.edu