>Question: does the fink "ln" have the -n option to forestall
>following symlinks in the destination? For OSX ln -n is a synonym
>for -h, so I could use "ln -fsn" in the Makefile...
Yes:
[localhost:~] jacob% /sw/bin/ln --help
[...snip...]
-n, --no-dereference treat destination that is a symlink to a
directory as if it were a normal file
[...snip...]
Jacob