[oe] [patch] fix for building freetype-native on a symlinked build environment

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Alexander Stohr <Alexander.Stohr at gmx.de> wrote:
> in an environment where the "/home" partition had not enough space
> for holding a complete open embedded project i created a symlink to
> an adequate partition on a second drive for hosting the build environment.
>
> this turned out to badly impact on misc build steps.
> the most recent problem i found is the build step used for freetype.
>
> in the seemingly hand written configure script there is
> a directory names comparison where some extra actions
> are needed in case the directory is not the base dir of freetype build.
> in my setup the names were different for some reasons in the embedding tools
> (not caring whats the exact origin). in fact both were the very same dir object.
> this lead to execution of parts of the script that were not intended
> so that this mis-detection finally stopped the build.
>
> the attached patch fixes that problem by changing the comparisonn code so that it
> uses the inode numbers of the relevant paths for the comparison.
>
> the patch further applies a check for an already existing subdir.
> this suppresses a message on the console in a benign case.
>
> the patch applies to freetype-2.3.6 but should be quite easily portable
> to any known later release including the relatively fresh 2.4.2 version.
>

if you can prepate patches for OE to apply this. It will be helpful.

> regards, Alex.
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