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 -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
