From 71e35ef5f55265f8650c829b561dda961813e363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balakrishnan Balasubramanian <git.user@balki.me>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 12:57:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] root may or maynot be a symlink

---
 Makefile   | 6 +++---
 README.md  | 4 ++--
 install.sh | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5a6aeb0..540937e 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ tmpfiles:  ## Run this after editing files under tmpfiles.d
 
 .PHONY: save-perms
 save-perms:  ## Saves the file permissions to ./acl. Run this after adding new files with correct permissions
-	getfacl --recursive `readlink root` | ./makepac/sort_acl.sh > acl
+	getfacl --recursive $(shell basename $(shell readlink -f root)) | ./makepac/sort_acl.sh > acl
 
 .PHONY: set-perms
 set-perms:  ## Restores permissions of all files from ./acl
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ set-perms:  ## Restores permissions of all files from ./acl
 
 .PHONY: user-perms
 user-perms:  ## Grant running user all permissions. Need for git operations. Does not get copied to real filesystem
-	find `readlink root` -type d | xargs sudo setfacl -m "u:${USER}:rwx"
-	find `readlink root` -type f | xargs sudo setfacl -m "u:${USER}:r"
+	find $(shell basename $(shell readlink -f root)) -type d | xargs sudo setfacl -m "u:${USER}:rwx"
+	find $(shell basename $(shell readlink -f root)) -type f | xargs sudo setfacl -m "u:${USER}:r"
 
 .PHONY: skel
 skel:  ## Creates common directories needed
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 612af78..a7a0ca4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Initial setup
     mkdir myfiles
     cd myfiles
     git init
-    git submodule add https://gitlab.com/balki/makepac'
-    echo "include makepac/Makefile" > Makefile'
+    git submodule add https://gitlab.com/balki/makepac
+    echo "include makepac/Makefile" > Makefile
     sudo apt install acl
     make skel
     git add .
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index ebaaa46..bc36dbf 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/bash
 
-root=$(readlink root)
+root=$(basename $(readlink -f root))
 
 all_files() {
 		find "$root" -type f,l