rpmbuild FAIL while packaging symlinks

[Tim]

Tim:
>> I'm not familiar with build packages, but are you doing that more than
>> once?  (Rerunning the script.)  It looks a bit circular.

Michael Schwendt:
> The %install section is executed only once (unless rpmbuild is run in
> --short-circuit mode which most newbie packagers don't use). However,
> a symlink pointing to itself could be a problem.

I was thinking of this sort of thing:  The author runs the script, gets
a crash, fiddles with something, then tries to run it again.  I don't
know if that means they'd start from a clean slate, or if previously
created files would still be there.

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