id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2396	Bzip2 creates symlinks with absolute pathnames	chris@…	bdubbs@…	"Bzip2's Makefile contains a number of commands similar to:

ln -s -f $(PREFIX)/bin/bzgrep $(PREFIX)/bin/bzegrep

which creates several symlinks in $(PREFIX)/bin that point specifically to that path. This would cause issues if any of these were moved elsewhere, and certainly if a user tried something like installing to a fakeroot dir. In CLFS we fixed this with a command similar to this before installation:

sed -i 's@\(ln -s -f \)$(PREFIX)/bin/@\1@' Makefile"	task	closed	normal	6.5	Book	SVN	normal	fixed