From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roger Pau Monne Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] tools/build: fix pygrub linking Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:26:19 +0100 Message-ID: <5006732B.20804@citrix.com> References: <1342002232-75531-1-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com> <1342002232-75531-3-git-send-email-roger.pau@citrix.com> <4FFD5CDB.8090409@amd.com> <4FFEFB8B.3040000@citrix.com> <20485.37211.873318.627523@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <50059421.406@citrix.com> <20485.44103.120825.660007@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20485.44103.120825.660007@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Christoph Egger , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Jackson wrote: > Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH 2/9] tools/build: fix pygrub linking"): >> Ian Jackson wrote: >>> Roger Pau Monne writes ("Re: [PATCH 2/9] tools/build: fix pygrub linking"): >>>> +ifneq ($(shell readlink -f $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR)), $(shell readlink -f >>>> $(PRIVATE_BINDIR))) >>>> ln -sf $(PRIVATE_BINDIR)/pygrub $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR) >>>> +endif >>> Why are we doing all this work in make with $(shell...) rather than >>> simply in the command stanza ? >>> >>> Also I'm a bit confused. This problem occurs only when DESTDIR="" ? >> No, this occurs when $(BINDIR) == $(PRIVATE_BINDIR), but we cannot use >> the "test -e", because we might have previous versions of pygrub >> installed which should also be overwritten by the link, or the user will >> keep using the old version. > > If DESTDIR is not "" then $(PRIVATE_BINDIR)/pygrub is not the same > directory as $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR). Ok, both conditions have to be meet, that DESTDIR == "" and PRIVATE_BINDIR == BINDIR (so $(DESTDIR)/$(BINDIR) == $(PRIVATE_BINDIR)).