From acb71aa5c6a7a55bc1c483c2a6940d85997d482c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:44:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Tweak error message

---
 src/libexpr/parser.y | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libexpr/parser.y b/src/libexpr/parser.y
index df55986f6..afa1fd439 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/parser.y
+++ b/src/libexpr/parser.y
@@ -584,9 +584,9 @@ Path resolveExprPath(Path path)
     while (true) {
         // Basic cycle/depth limit to avoid infinite loops.
         if (++followCount >= maxFollow)
-          throw Error(format("can't resolve expression. infinite symlink recursion in path '%1%'") % path);
+            throw Error("too many symbolic links encountered while traversing the path '%s'", path);
         if (lstat(path.c_str(), &st))
-            throw SysError(format("getting status of '%1%'") % path);
+            throw SysError("getting status of '%s'", path);
         if (!S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) break;
         path = absPath(readLink(path), dirOf(path));
     }