[oe] Fix: stage hidden files as well

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 11:24 -0500, Mike Westerhof wrote:
> The following patch is a proposed patch to fix the problem where hidden
> files are sometimes missed during staging.  A specific example is that
> the symbolic link ".config" is not copied to the kernel staging area,
> which causes madwifi-ng to fail to build.
> 
> diff --git a/classes/staging.bbclass b/classes/staging.bbclass
> index 32038a5..cb19cb9 100644
> --- a/classes/staging.bbclass
> +++ b/classes/staging.bbclass
> @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ sysroot_stage_dir() {
>         if [ -d "$src" ]; then
>                 mkdir -p "$dest"
>                 cp -fpPR "$src"/* "$dest"
> +               # Get hidden files as well, but carefully
> +               for i in "$src"/.*
> +               do
> +                       if [ "$i" != "$src"/. -a "$i" != "$src"/.. ]; then
> +                              cp -fpPR "$i" "$dest"
> +                       fi
> +               done
>         fi
>  }
> 
> If anyone has a better way to address the copy operations above, that
> would be great.

So, I said this on IRC, but more formally, how about just for i in
"$src"/.??* do as this lets us know we don't have '.' or '..', and if we
skip out on '.a' or something being installed, that reeks of a bug in
the program in question that should be fixed anyways (and would
catch .config and others).

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Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation