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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:15:22 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v4] New package: linux-firmware
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> That won't work as cp doesn't create the destination directories -
 >> install -D is also not really good as that doesn't handle symlinks,
 >> so I think the best approach is to use tar.

 Thomas> What about:

 Thomas> 	mkdir -p $(dirname $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/firmware/$$i)
 Thomas>  	cp -af $(@D)/$$i $(TARGET_DIR)/lib/firmware/$$i

That would work as well, but
     tar c -C srcdir files | tar x -C destdir

Is imho simpler.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard