[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] externalsrc.bbclass: Avoid symlink clashes for virtclasses

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 11:23 +0000, Ola x Nilsson wrote:
> I noticed that the preceding commit has been merged. 
> Is there some problem with this one?

Its not something I can describe easily, more a gut feeling that is
shared by some others I've talked to.

Basically externalsrc is turning into an ever more complicated pile of
corner cases and it worries me a lot. I can't help thinking we really
want to simplify and streamline this, not add more complexity to it.

How exactly we do that I'm not sure, I haven't had the time to spend
looking at the code. I do appreciate you added a test case though.

I guess what might help would be creating standard API in lib/oe to get
things like the remapped name.

I'm actually tempted to throw out he externalsrc symlinks stuff. If our
directory layout is so bad we really should fix that "properly" and
that's something I'm thinking about for the next development cycle...

Cheers,

Richard