Currently copies of the license files are made which wastes disk space
and adversely affects performance. We can link these instead in most
cases for small performance gains.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 601f561..a34ea39 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ def copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir):
bb.utils.mkdirhier(destdir)
for (basename, path) in lic_files_paths:
try:
- ret = shutil.copyfile(path, os.path.join(destdir, basename))
+ src = path
+ dst = os.path.join(destdir, basename)
+ if os.path.exists(dst):
+ os.remove(dst)
+ if (os.stat(src).st_dev == os.stat(destdir).st_dev):
+ os.link(src, dst)
+ else:
+ shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
except Exception as e:
bb.warn("Could not copy license file %s: %s" % (basename, e))
--
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