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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFCv1 01/11] Makefile: make $(BUILD_DIR)/.root rule idempotent
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:31:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130908193113.67a7c635@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANxTyt5T+GUhU4EuDChEvfPze-9uCAb8mMNy-X-2Jn=fmMi9rg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Danomi Manchego,

On Sun, 8 Sep 2013 12:59:23 -0400, Danomi Manchego wrote:

>  "ln -sf" is not sufficient for a symlink to a directory - you need "ln
> -snf" - the -n treats the directory symlink as a file, which prevents this
> very problem.

Aah, good!

> Using the "ln -snf" lets you drop the if statements, so it seems desirable.

Right, makes sense. I'll fix this up for the next iteration of the
patch series.

Thanks!

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-08 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 21:27 [Buildroot] [RFCv1 00/11] Convert toolchain backends to packages to fix source/external-deps/legal-info Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 01/11] Makefile: make $(BUILD_DIR)/.root rule idempotent Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-08 12:06   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-08 13:13   ` Danomi Manchego
2013-09-08 13:30     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-08 16:59       ` Danomi Manchego
2013-09-08 17:31         ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-09  8:54   ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-09 21:38   ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-09-10  7:23     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 02/11] toolchain-crosstool-ng: remove support Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06  9:35   ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-09-06 15:53   ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-09-06 15:56     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-08 12:52   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-13 16:10   ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 03/11] toolchain-external: make ext-tool.mk includable in all cases Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-08 15:31   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 04/11] toolchain: move helpers.mk into toolchain-external/ Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-08 17:50   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-13 16:07   ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 05/11] toolchain: introduce a virtual package Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-13 16:24   ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-15 14:27   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 06/11] toolchain-buildroot: convert to the package infrastructure Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-15 14:30   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 07/11] toolchain: intermediate .mk files no longer needed Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-15 14:33   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 08/11] package: package-based implementation of source, external-deps and legal-info Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-15 19:29   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-15 20:09     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-16  1:21       ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 09/11] package: add a <pkg>_SOURCE_ADDONS variable Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-16 13:39   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-16 18:31     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-16 19:20       ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-09-17  7:21         ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-27 14:27           ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 10/11] toolchain-external: convert to the package infrastructure Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-16 13:29   ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2013-09-27 14:21     ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-27 14:24   ` Luca Ceresoli
2013-09-05 21:27 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 11/11] dependencies: remove useless targets Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06  8:28 ` [Buildroot] [RFCv1 00/11] Convert toolchain backends to packages to fix source/external-deps/legal-info Fabio Porcedda
2013-09-06  8:38   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-06  8:50     ` Fabio Porcedda
2013-09-06 12:37   ` Ryan Barnett
2013-09-06  8:57 ` Jérôme Pouiller
2013-09-06  9:05   ` Thomas Petazzoni

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