From ab186a1866e1ff102c394eb4406e95cf7d1ee037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kurt Zeilenga <kurt@openldap.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:13:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Don't use non-portable "ln -s -f" command to install
 manpages.  (ITS#227)

---
 CHANGES      | 3 ++-
 build/man.mk | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index e4427c7aa1..c0d1cd3d29 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ OpenLDAP Change Log
 
 Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.2 Release Engineering
 	CVS Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_2
-	<insert changes here>
+	Build environment
+		Don't use "ln -s -f file link" (ITS#227)
 
 Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.2.4
 	CVS Tag: OPENLDAP_REL_ENG_1_2_4
diff --git a/build/man.mk b/build/man.mk
index 9bcc0c22b6..c71338151c 100644
--- a/build/man.mk
+++ b/build/man.mk
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ install-common:
 		if test -f "$(srcdir)/$$page.links" ; then \
 			for link in `$(CAT) $(srcdir)/$$page.links`; do \
 				echo "installing $(MANDIR)/$$link as link to $$page"; \
-				$(LN_S) -f $$page $(MANDIR)/$$link; \
+				$(RM) $(MANDIR)/$$link; \
+				$(LN_S) $$page $(MANDIR)/$$link; \
 			done; \
 		fi; \
 	done
-- 
2.39.5