Re: 7Zip Problem

Hello,

I regularly download and try to use software that was compiled for AIX. Frequently, that software expects files to be in their standard Unix locations /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/share, et al. But the IBM tools expect them to be in /QOpenSys/usr/local -- thus creating a conflict and breaking the software.

So I always have /usr/local and /qopensys/usr/local symlinked.

It's true that case-sensitivity doesn't work as expected, but I have yet to run into a software package that gets broken by this. The packages are all careful to maintain case, but that doesn't /hurt/ anything if they're running in a case-insensitive filesystem... it's just not necessary. Granted, if one of them had files that had the same name where the only diff was the upper vs. lower case characters, then something would break.

But I have not yet run into a package that does that.


Dennis Lovelady wrote:

This belongs in the midrange-l forum.

I have installed 7Zip to my i, and add the symbolic link as bellow ln -s /usr/local /QOpenSys/usr/local

And BTW, I wouldn't make a symbolic link from the root file system into
the QOpenSys file system. The root file system has not he same features
as the QOpenSys file system (f. e. case sensitivity).

In general, this is OK if you know what you're doing. However, I agree that
you shouldn't try to create a link between /QOpenSys/usr/local and
/usr/local.

Dennis Lovelady
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