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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:31:13 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [RFCv1 01/11] Makefile: make $(BUILD_DIR)/.root
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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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