Bug 2095

Summary: gcc-cross: avoid creating invalid symlinks
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Component: devtools / tool chainAssignee: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Undecided CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: 1.2 M4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
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Description Robert Yang 2012-03-14 07:24:38 UTC 
There are several invalid symlinks in gcc-cross-initial, gcc-cross-intermediate and gcc-cross, these cause the error:(56 errors)

tmp/work/i586-poky-linux/gcc-cross-initial-4.6.3+svnr184847-r23/temp/log.do_populate_sysroot:
log.do_populate_sysroot:grep: /path/to/invalid/symlink: No such file or directory

Avoid creating invalid symlinks would fix this problem.
Comment 2 Robert Yang 2012-03-15 02:26:07 UTC 
We should keep these symlinks.

Comments from RP:

The problem is that the location we're symlinking to may not be installed yet. For example, gcc provides "${TARGET_PREFIX}gcc" but it won't be installed at the location we point at until after gcc's populate_sysroot function runs. The tests you're using are therefore not adding as many symlinks as we need.