[OE-core] [PATCH 00/53] musl fixes 3

Phil Blundell pb at pbcl.net
Sun Jan 10 22:22:19 UTC 2016


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.

p.





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