From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hetzner.pbcl.net (mail.pbcl.net [88.198.119.4]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5A8731B3 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blundell.swaffham-prior.co.uk ([91.216.112.25] helo=e130.local) by hetzner.pbcl.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aIONV-0001Mo-0V; Sun, 10 Jan 2016 23:22:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1452464539.1950.19.camel@pbcl.net> From: Phil Blundell To: Matthias Schiffer Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:22:19 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5692CD35.2060304@universe-factory.net> References: <5692CD35.2060304@universe-factory.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.9-1+b1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: OE-core Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/53] musl fixes 3 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:22:26 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 22:29 +0100, Matthias Schiffer wrote: > systemd has been relying on ln's -r (--relative) option for some time > for similar reasons, but it's a fairly recent addition to ln, so I'm not > sure if it's acceptable for OE. If not, adding a symlink helper based on > python's os.path.relpath might be a good idea. As a general rule, if it's not in POSIX (and I don't think "ln -r" is) then we probably don't want OE to rely on it. As far as I know, oe-core doesn't currently require GNU ln to build. p.