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[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Eric, Thomas, Peter, All,

Thomas, Peter, you input is requested, below...

On 2014-06-11 23:47 +0200, Eric Le Bihan spake thusly:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:13:03PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2014-06-11 23:04 +0200, Eric Le Bihan spake thusly:
> > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:56:53AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 23:10:36 +0200, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> > > > > - We are stuck with autoreconf, as it is needed to solve the `ln --relative`
> > > > >   issue via a patch, which will not be accepted by upstream [8].
> > > >
> > > > If we're stuck with autoreconf due to a patch that will not be accepted
> > > > upstream, then I would suggest that we move away from autoreconf, and
> > > > turn this patch into something that changes Makefile.in and configure
> > > > directly, with a good explanation in the patch description.
> > > >
> > > > Hopefully, ln implementations in distributions will be upgraded, and at
> > > > some time, we'll be able to drop the patch.
> > > Maybe there will be a backport of coreutils for Debian Wheezy ;-)
> > > >
> > > > The drawback with this solution is that if we want to create/backport
> > > > other systemd patches that require autoreconf, then we're screwed. So
> > > > maybe carrying our copy of libgcrypt.m4 as a patch in systemd sources is
> > > > the easiest solution here.
> > > I think this is the more future-proof solution. I'll post a patch implementing
> > > this.
> >
> > Can we just use the ln wrapper as suggested in the referenced thread?
>
> Should it be provided by the systemd package or should we create a new one?
> Are there other packages that require such wrappers?

I think if we go that route, we should just bundle it in Buildroot, and
always install it.

After all, all this wrapper does is look for --relative in the
arguments, and if found, emulates it; otherwise, it just calls to the
real ln.

Sounds reasonable to me (although I did not look too closely if the
script was entirely correct.)

But I'd like input from Thomas and Peter on that one.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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