Re: [Xenomai-core] warning: symlink-is-self-recursive

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Roland Stigge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Roland Stigge wrote:
>> =========================================================================
>> W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive
>> usr/include/xenomai/asm-generic/xenomai .
>> N:
>> N:   The symbolic link is recursive to a higher directory of the symlink
>> N:   itself. This means, that you can infinitely chdir with this symlink.
>> N:   This is usually not okay, but sometimes wanted behaviour.
>> N:
>> W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive
>> usr/include/xenomai/asm-sim/asm .
>> W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive
>> usr/include/xenomai/asm-sim/xenomai .
>> W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive
>> usr/include/xenomai/asm-x86/xenomai .
>> W: libxenomai-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/include/xenomai/xenomai .
>> =========================================================================
>>
>> I.e. installing Xenomai created those recursive links which might be
>> there for source compatibility reasons. Can they be removed at some
>> point or should I accept the above issue as intended for the future?
> 
> No comment from anyone? Maybe I should detect the necessity for those
> links by removing and seeing if anyone complains? ;-)
>

Those links are intended. We need them to build applications, so that the
include paths in userland look like the kernel ones, since we share header files
between both environments.

> bye,
>   Roland
> 
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-- 
Philippe.