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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bb.build: use relative log links, not absolute
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On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 14:07 -0500, Christopher Larson wrote:
> From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> 
> Using symlinks to absolute paths isn't gaining us anything, and can cause
> problems in situations such as automated build systems when they try to
> resolve the link, depending on the mechanism used to pull the build artifacts
> (e.g. nfs).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
> ---
>  lib/bb/build.py |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Merged to master, thanks. That has been annoying me too...

Cheers,

Richard