The error is: ln -s xdg/virt-builder /tmp/p/etc/virt-builder ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/virt-builder/virt-builder': File exists There is no 'LN_SF' macro, but according to the documentation at least, it should be safe to add a '-f' flag since it will work for both the 'ln' and 'cp' variants of the macro. --- builder/Makefile.am | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builder/Makefile.am b/builder/Makefile.am index 0d5ce3b..68b7176 100644 --- a/builder/Makefile.am +++ b/builder/Makefile.am @@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ repoconf_DATA = libguestfs.conf libguestfs.gpg \ opensuse.conf opensuse.gpg install-exec-hook: - $(LN_S) xdg/virt-builder $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/virt-builder + $(LN_S) -f xdg/virt-builder $(DESTDIR)$(sysconfdir)/virt-builder # Build a small C index validator program. bin_PROGRAMS += virt-index-validate -- 2.5.0