[oe] What's with the symlinks?

[Matthew Palmer]

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 09:51:40PM -0800, jack-oe at mudshark.org wrote:
> 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. 

Interesting "feature".  I'd use a slightly different word for it, though.

- Matt