On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:59:43PM +1300, Paul Eggleton wrote: > If you set LIC_FILES_CHKSUM to point to a relative symlink then you'll > get "Could not copy license file" warnings in copy_license_files() since > the symlink won't be valid after it's copied. If the source is a symlink > then we need to dereference it first. > > I encountered this when I used recipetool on the sources for capnproto, > where the c++ directory contains a LICENSE.txt symlink to the LICENSE > file in the parent directory, and this symlink ends up being pointed to > in LIC_FILES_CHKSUM. Acked-by: Martin Jansa Please cherry-pick this to morty as well. > Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton > --- > meta/classes/license.bbclass | 2 ++ > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass > index da4fc3e..660b85f 100644 > --- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass > +++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass > @@ -351,6 +351,8 @@ def copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir): > dst = os.path.join(destdir, basename) > if os.path.exists(dst): > os.remove(dst) > + if os.path.islink(src): > + src = os.path.realpath(src) > canlink = os.access(src, os.W_OK) and (os.stat(src).st_dev == os.stat(destdir).st_dev) > if canlink: > try: > -- > 2.5.5 > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com