There seems to be a circular symbolic link in the /usr/include/gphoto2 directory : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2008-05-30 10:57 /usr/include/gphoto2/gphoto2 -> ./ This will cause spurious error messages from recursive greps or find commands, for example. There's not much sense to have that link there. If it's for backward compatibility reasons (to support include <gphoto2/gphoto2/gphoto2-foo.h> ??), it is those projects that should be patched and upstreams notified, rather than adding this link.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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Reopening, as this problem still exists in F-12.
Could you please fix this ? The symbolic link serves no purpose. I can't think of a single backward-compatibility scenario where it would be useful. I tested all the packages that depend on libgphoto2-devel and they build fine without it. Here's the spec file patch: @@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.a rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la +rm -f %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/gphoto2/gphoto2 + %find_lang %{name}-2 %find_lang %{name}_port-0 cat libgphoto2*.lang >> %{name}.lang @@ -162,6 +164,9 @@ thanks!
Indeed, this symlink is meant to assure compatibility with older libgphoto2 versions and it is no more needed as the pkgconfig --cflags points directly to /usr/incude/gphoto2 now. It is fixed in rawhide and committed to F12 for now so it will occur along with the next update.