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From: benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson I. Margulies                         Kendall Square Research Corp.)
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Subject: ICS tapes -- has anyone succeeded with them?
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Date: 8 Dec 88 13:41:31 GMT
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I am observing some rather perplexing characteristics of the X11R3
tape set that I picked up from ICS yesterday. Can anyone tell me
whether these are normal characteristics of the distribution?

1) In each major subdirectory of the core, there is a symbolic link
that is circular. For example, core/X11/X11 is a link to X11.

2) In core/X11 is a link named "sys" that points to /usr/include.  It
can't possibly work on a Sun unless that link points to
/usr/include/sys.  Further, I don't see why it exists at all.

3) When I try to build, all proceeds normally until the Makefiles
build starts to repeat directories. From somewhere in util, it goes
and tries to do ../.././X11, and fails.

thanks in advance,

benson