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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:16:35PM +0100, Thomas Houssin wrote:
> On Sat,  5 Mar 2005 10:50:06 -0800
> Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>:
> > > for the last few days I get lots of messages of the type
> > >
> > > find: /home/treeve/p4/misc/ndiswrapper: Too many levels of symbolic
> links
> > >
> > > when I do 'scribe reindex'
> > >
> > > My ~/p4/misc directory contains symlinks to various spells from the
> devel
> > > grimoire
> > >
> > > The problem seems to have started when findutils was updated to
> 4.2.18.
> 
> Same problem here... I think we hit this bug in findutils 4.2.18 :  
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12181
> 
> It could be useful to add an option to build from CVS, or add a patch in
> the grimoire for that, couldn't it ? ;)

Definitely, we should either downgrade or get a patch from their cvs to
fix it. If no one else wants to do it I'll see if I can find time
tomorrow to get a patch ready.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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