Re: [Bug-stow] Does not work -d option with the user directory on FreeBSD

[Adam Spiers]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:38:05PM +0900, Hiroyuki Iwatsuki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using GNU Stow 2.2.0 on FreeBSD.
> I have specified -d $HOME/local/stow to Stow.
> Unfortunately, Stow do not work.
> 
> % LANG=C stow -d /home/don/local/stow -S mono-git --verbose=3
> stow dir is /usr/home/don/local/stow
> stow dir path relative to target /home/don/local is
> ../../../usr/home/don/local/stow
> cwd now /home/don/local
> cwd restored to /usr/home/don/src/mono-git/_build_
> cwd now /home/don/local
> stow: ERROR: The stow directory ../../../usr/home/don/local/stow does
> not contain package mono-git (No such file or directory)
> [1]    62559 exit 2     LANG=C stow -d /home/don/local/stow -S
> mono-git --verbose=3

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> Is this bug? or, my environment problem?
> 
> 
> FYI, /home directory is symlink from /usr/home on FreeBSD.
> 
> % LANG=C ls -l /home
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8 Feb  2  2011 /home@ -> usr/home

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Thanks for the excellent bug report!  I am pretty sure you found a
bug.  Here is a suggested fix:

    
https://github.com/aspiers/stow/commit/c500216f20b081fae0799253d1d86536d48ff6ba

Please can you git clone from that branch and see if it fixes the
issue for you?

    https://github.com/aspiers/stow/tree/canonical-paths

Thanks,
Adam