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When writing a tool named “foo”, why symlink PROJECT/bin/foo to ../libexec/foo
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I've been learning bash and unix by reading source code.
This particular bit I don't understand why it was done.
The main tool executable is a symbolic link. Whats the benefit here?
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I've been learning bash and unix by reading source code.
This particular bit I don't understand why it was done.
The main tool executable is a symbolic link. Whats the benefit here?
source
symlink
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I've been learning bash and unix by reading source code.
This particular bit I don't understand why it was done.
The main tool executable is a symbolic link. Whats the benefit here?
source
symlink
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I've been learning bash and unix by reading source code.
This particular bit I don't understand why it was done.
The main tool executable is a symbolic link. Whats the benefit here?
source
symlink
symlink
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