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Subject: Re: meta-toolchain-gmae can't build: Cannot create symlink from ./var/log to 'volatile/log': File exists
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On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 15:35 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Hi, recently, I found meta-toolchain-gmae failed to build on poky master if I use ipk packaging(I didn't try rpm/deb):
> 
> task do_populate_sdk: Failed
> 
> | Configuring avahi-dev.
> | Configuring task-core-standalone-gmae-sdk-target.
> | Configuring libtelepathy-dbg.
> | Configuring task-core-standalone-gmae-sdk-target-dbg.
> | Configuring util-linux-blkid.
> | Collected errors:
> |  * extract_archive: Cannot create symlink from ./var/log to 'volatile/log': File exists.
> ERROR: Function 'do_populate_sdk' failed 
> 
> Now I have no time to look into this issue at once. It would be great, if somebody can give some quick hint.

Is this with the latest master?

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=f340e3937fd5ac3963de6c6b29d56dd92d962864

was added to avoid an error very like this that was showing up with
rpm...

Cheers,

Richard