[Coin-discuss] Too many levels of symbolic links

[Laszlo Ladanyi]

Dear Ye,

Apparently you got the wrong COIN... There are two open source projects,
COIN3D and COIN-OR, both of which use COIN as a shorthand. COIN-OR deals with
operations research related open source software, COIN3D deals wth some sort
of graphics development. From your link command it seems to me you'd need to
contact the developers of COIN3D. Their home page is http://www.coin3d.org.

Good luck,
--Laci

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, #YE JIANYU# wrote:

> Dear COIN developers,
> 
> I can not successfully compile COIN because of a "Too many levels of
> symbolic links". The problem is: src/misc/SoOutput.lo linked to itself.
> I read the Makefile of COIN and src/misc/ , but can't find any hint to solve
> this problem. Anyone had the same experience pls give me your help.
> 
> I download the COIN by wincvs and copied to LINUX using dos2unix to solve
> EOL problem. Because my Linux computer can not connect to INTERNET.
> Is there any website that I can download zipped COIN ?
> Thanks in advanced for your kindly help.
> 
> Attached below is the results of make command:
> 
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../include/Inventor
> -I../../include/Inventor/system -I../.. -I../../include -I../../include
> -DCOIN_DEBUG=1 -DCOIN_INTERNAL -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -W -Wall
> -Wno-unused -Wno-multichar -c simage_wrapper.c -MT simage_wrapper.lo -MF
> .deps/simage_wrapper.Plo -MD -MP  -fPIC -DPIC -o simage_wrapper.lo
> /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link g++  -g -O2 -fno-exceptions -W -Wall
> -Wno-unused -Wno-multichar  -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o libmisc.la   SoBase.lo
> SoChildList.lo SoGL.lo SoGLImage.lo SoGlyph.lo SoNormalGenerator.lo
> SoNotification.lo SoState.lo SoDB.lo SoFullPath.lo SoTempPath.lo
> SoLightPath.lo SoInput.lo SoInteraction.lo SoOutput.lo SoPath.lo
> SoPickedPoint.lo SoPrimitiveVertex.lo SoSceneManager.lo SoType.lo
> SoOffscreenRenderer.lo SoGenerate.lo SoLockManager.lo SoByteStream.lo
> SoTranSender.lo SoTranReceiver.lo default3dfont.lo default2dfont.lo
> GLUWrapper.lo simage_wrapper.lo
> mkdir .libs
> (cd . && ln -s SoOutput.lo SoOutput.lo)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ar cru .libs/libmisc.al SoBase.lo SoChildList.lo SoGL.lo SoGLImage.lo
> SoGlyph.lo SoNormalGenerator.lo SoNotification.lo SoState.lo SoDB.lo
> SoFullPath.lo SoTempPath.lo SoLightPath.lo SoInput.lo SoInteraction.lo
> SoOutput.lo SoPath.lo SoPickedPoint.lo SoPrimitiveVertex.lo
> SoSceneManager.lo SoType.lo SoOffscreenRenderer.lo SoGenerate.lo
> SoLockManager.lo SoByteStream.lo SoTranSender.lo SoTranReceiver.lo
> default3dfont.lo default2dfont.lo GLUWrapper.lo simage_wrapper.lo
> ar: SoOutput.lo: Too many levels of symbolic links
> make[3]: *** [libmisc.la] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/COIN/src/misc'
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/COIN/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/COIN'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Ye Jianyu
> Photonics Lab
> School of EEE
> Nanyang Technological University
> Singapore  639798
> Tel: 65-7905461-15
> 
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