Re: [PATCH 00/53] musl fixes 3

Paul Eggleton
2016-01-10T22:24:16Z

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:22:19 Phil Blundell wrote:
> 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.

This is why we have scripts/lnr to provide equivalent functionality.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre