[oe] What's with the symlinks?

[jack-oe at mudshark.org]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:11:29AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> 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?

I ran into this. IIRC if "$PWD" != "`readlink -f $PWD`", then automake-native
fails to build. 

This is a feature of the automake build system. 

--Jack 

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