[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="svetlana@192500fb6a2e2ef8e78d1a08cca64b1bca9833b9"
 nickname="svetlana"
 avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/5821f2dec97d186ce3b455b806d33035"
 subject="comment 5"
 date="2017-02-21T03:47:34Z"
 content="""
Turns out always listing backlinks (if they exist) is intended behaviour. I followed \"[[todo/allow disabling backlinks]]\" todo page by editing ~/git.ikiwiki.info/IkiWiki/Render.pm 

    diff --git a/IkiWiki/Render.pm b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
    index e8ed627..6142846 100644
    --- a/IkiWiki/Render.pm
    +++ b/IkiWiki/Render.pm
    @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
    -#!/usr/bin/perl
    +#!/usr/local/bin/perl
    
     package IkiWiki;
    
    @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ sub genpage ($$) {
            }
            templateactions($template, $page);
    
    -       my @backlinks=sort { $a->{page} cmp $b->{page} || $a->{url} cmp $b->{url} } backlinks($page);
    +       my @backlinks=sort { $a->{page} cmp $b->{page} || $a->{url} cmp $b->{url} } backlinks($page)
    +           unless defined $config{nobacklinks} && $config{nobacklinks} == 0;
            my ($backlinks, $more_backlinks);
            if (@backlinks <= $config{numbacklinks} || ! $config{numbacklinks}) {
                    $backlinks=\@backlinks;
    


Here is line in config:

    nobacklinks: 1



and then \"perl Makefile.PL ;$MAKE;$MAKE install\" . But then running 'ikiwiki --rebuild --setup ~/wiki/ikiwiki.setup' makes no difference. Why ...
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