Re: Where to put a check if my tmp is a symlink?

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 21-01-09 12:10, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I spent at least 2 hours yesterday to understand why lintool-native breaks on a
> build from scratch for me now.
>
> Finally I found this bugreport:
> http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904
>
> And yes I thought symlinking between different tmp dirs would be a neat idea.
> Without symlink it works fine again. This leads me to the question if we should
> check for this and bail out instead of letting the first 150 tasks go through
> and then fail in libtool with "already configured use make distclean"

binutils will fail as well

> Anything I missed?

It *is* mentioned in 
http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Getting_Started, but it does that 
a small mental leap to apply the symlink warning to directories below 
/stuff as well :)

Anyway, checking for a symlink in sanity.bbclass would be a good idea.

regards,

Koen