Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: regression: checkpatch.pl fails when called via symlink | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:20:18 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:43 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > Since commit 66b47b4a9dad00e45c049d79966de9a3a1f4d337 > Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > Date: Mon Oct 13 15:51:57 2014 -0700 > > checkpatch: look for common misspellings > > checkpatch.pl dies with > > checkpatch.pl: Can't open /path/to/spelling.txt for reading: No such file or directory > > if it's called through a symlink in /path/to/checkpatch.pl pointing at > the actual script. > > Please fail graciously, and just ignore spelling if you can't find > spelling.txt. Or better yet, follow the links if you can.
I agree it should fail better, but I'm also curious. Why you want to use a symlink?
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