I wasn't sure about that line too, because other commands in that Makefile target are not protected against existing files in the target symlink paths, so I wanted the behavior to at least be consistent. I guess Sean Young can decide and fixup that himself if that's important for him.
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Maybe it's because .../configs is a symbolic link to a directory and it could be that there is already a directory before (at this place in certain circumstances).
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The removed line
in 0001-Makefile.am-Simplify-ln-sr-calls.patch (sourceforge.net) might still be needed.
I wasn't sure about that line too, because other commands in that Makefile target are not protected against existing files in the target symlink paths, so I wanted the behavior to at least be consistent. I guess Sean Young can decide and fixup that himself if that's important for him.
Maybe it's because
.../configsis a symbolic link to a directory and it could be that there is already a directory before (at this place in certain circumstances).