[OE-core] [PATCH] e2fsprogs: configure with enable-symlink

[Martin Jansa]

It was also proposed and discussed some 15 months ago and it was packaging
issue not handling hardlinks correctly:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-April/103939.html

I believe this was fixed then, but maybe it got broken again?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:50 PM, André Draszik <git at andred.net> wrote:

> On 14 Sep 2016 5:40 p.m., "Patrick Williams" <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > The /sbin/fsck.ext[234] programs currently installed are all
> > the same binary as e2fsck.  The package provides an option to
> > have fsck.ext[234] be symlinked to /sbin/e2fsck instead.  This
> > reduces the uncompressed footprint of this package by ~1MB on ARM.
>
> They were all hardlinks last time I checked not long ago. Why do hardlinks
> increase the footprint?
>
> A.
>
> >
> > Add --enable-symlink-install to EXTRA_OECONF to enable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.bb | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.bb
> b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.bb
> > index f4855bc..d6db612 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.bb
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs_1.43.bb
> > @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX =
> "v(?P<pver>\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)$"
> >
> >  EXTRA_OECONF += "--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} \
> >                  --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-libuuid --disable-uuidd \
> > -                --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds"
> > +                --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds \
> > +                --enable-symlink-install"
> >
> >  EXTRA_OECONF_darwin = "--libdir=${base_libdir}
> --sbindir=${base_sbindir} --enable-bsd-shlibs"
> >
> > --
> > 2.9.0
> >
> >
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