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Instead of a symlink to true you could have made an empty script.


And violate AT&T's copyright? Perish the thought!


Well the symlink command was also easier to share with others having the same issue, whereas a one liner that creates an executable script which returns 0 is less ideal.


An empty script returns 0 by default, thus `touch /path/to/missing/library` is a sufficient (and shorter!) one-liner fix to this problem.


I know, but you still have to make it executable, hence it's not as convenient.

And on top of this, an unlink is less error prone than a rm -f.




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