Nov 7, 2016 · I want to create a symbolic link in Linux. I have written this Bash command where the first path is the folder I want to link, and the second path is the compiled source. ln -s '+basebuild+'/IpDome-

How to create a link to an existing file or directory using a GNU Linux shell command?

Oct 9, 2008 · The inode is only deleted (or deletable/over-writable) when all links to the inode have been deleted. A symbolic link is a link to another name in the file system. Once a hard link has been made the link is to the inode. Deleting, renaming, or moving the original file will not affect the hard link as it links to the underlying inode.

Clarification: I know that if a certain library exists only in static versions it'll use it without -Wl,-Bstatic, but I want to imply gcc to prefer the static library. I also know that specifying the library file directly would link with it, but I prefer to keep the semantic for including static and dynamic libraries the same.

If rm cannot remove a link, perhaps you need to look at the permissions on the directory that contains the link. To remove directory entries, you need write permission on the containing directory.

Oct 2, 2013 · I am having .c and .so file. I tried by using the following compilation: gcc main.c -ldl. In that .c file i linked to .so file through dlsym(). How to compile using .so file with .c.

Jan 6, 2017 · -L returns true if the "file" exists and is a symbolic link (the linked file may or may not exist). You want -f (returns true if file exists and is a regular file) or maybe just -e (returns true if file exists regardless of type). According to the GNU manpage, -h is identical to -L, but according to the BSD manpage, it should not be used: -h file True if file exists and is a symbolic link ...

Oct 10, 2019 · Recently I came across the os library in Python and found out about the existence of symbolic links. I would like to know what a symbolic link is, why it exists, and what are various uses of it?

So I created a symbolic link: ln -s /location/to/link linkname Now I want to change the location that the symlink links to. How do I do that? Is there a way to do it without deleting it first?

Dec 16, 2011 · I made a simple program that uses a shared object, opening it with dlopen(). I also compiled and linked the shared object like below: gcc -o libmylib.so libmylib.c -shared -fPIC -Wall gcc -o prog...