Create relative symlink

[xsYf6tdq8]

In my use case I sometimes move around the whole pyenv directory and this absolute link breaks my setup.
I don't see many (any?) disadvantages in always creating this symlink as a relative link.

Any other opinions?

[native-api]

MacOS's ln doesn't support -r.

It can still create a relative link if one provides a relative path as the link's target.

[anupddas]

Hello @xsYf6tdq8
The ln command in macOS does not have a -r (relative) flag.
To create a relative symbolic link on a Mac, you must manually provide the relative path from the target directory to the source file, rather than using an absolute path.
If there's an actual requirement of ln -r functionality, you can install the GNU version of the command-line tools using Homebrew.

Thanks

[anupddas]

To install GNU coreutils:

brew install coreutils

Use the GNU link command (prefixed with a g by default to avoid system conflicts):

gln -sr /absolute/path/to/source /absolute/path/to/link