[oe] [meta-java][PATCH] jikes: fix absolute symlink error

[Dan McGregor]

On 13 March 2017 at 03:22, Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com> wrote:
> The following oe-core commit made asbolute symlink an error:
>
> commit 3eee8e99e114b3db8b718834ca52da8d2919b83f
> sstate: Make absolute symlinks an error
>
> Fix this by inheritting relative_symlinks class:
> ERROR: jikes-native-1.22-r0 do_populate_sysroot: sstate found an
> absolute path symlink
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john at intel.com>
> ---
>  recipes-core/jikes/jikes_1.22.bb | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/recipes-core/jikes/jikes_1.22.bb b/recipes-core/jikes/jikes_1.22.bb
> index 0c33118..a35cfcf 100644
> --- a/recipes-core/jikes/jikes_1.22.bb
> +++ b/recipes-core/jikes/jikes_1.22.bb
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
>                     "
>  SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/jikes/jikes-${PV}.tar.bz2"
>
> -inherit autotools update-alternatives
> +inherit autotools update-alternatives relative_symlinks
>
>  BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>
> --
> 2.4.0
>

This change makes the layer depend on master, not krogoth or master
like the README says. Should we add the relative_symlinks
functionality locally, or update the README?