[oe] What's with the symlinks?

[Robert Wörle]

Dear Matthew

I cant answer your question but i can say ,, it works for me like a charm...

I have a partition where the whole oe stuff is residing ( tree , tmp`s
for various builds ) but i symlinked it inot my /home folder and also
use it in there
so i dont have any problem ( but i remmeber having problems at least a
year ago with symlinking the tree )

Maybe that faq is outdated and not "valid" anymore

Regards
rob_w

Matthew Palmer schrieb:
> Everywhere I go while assembling my OE build tree, I see admonishments not
> to use a path that has symlinks in it.  For such a major problem, the only
> real information on the actual problem is a fairly cryptic entry in the FAQ,
> about a failure to build libtool-native.
>
> Being an intensely curious kind of person, and not enjoying arbitrary
> limits, I'm very interested to know what the *real* reason behind being so
> strongly against the much-maligned symlink.  Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> - Matt
>
>