bb.build: use relative log links, not absolute
authorChristopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:07:23 +0000 (14:07 -0500)
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:44:45 +0000 (09:44 +0100)
Using symlinks to absolute paths isn't gaining us anything, and can cause
problems in situations such as automated build systems when they try to
resolve the link, depending on the mechanism used to pull the build artifacts
(e.g. nfs).

(Bitbake rev: f9cf2671c0ecad153db11bca1aebe151213bfb42)

Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
bitbake/lib/bb/build.py

index 736ba24..95f1dcf 100644 (file)
@@ -291,12 +291,13 @@ def _exec_task(fn, task, d, quieterr):
 
     bb.utils.mkdirhier(tempdir)
     loglink = os.path.join(tempdir, 'log.{0}'.format(task))
-    logfn = os.path.join(tempdir, 'log.{0}.{1}'.format(task, os.getpid()))
+    logbase = 'log.{0}.{1}'.format(task, os.getpid())
+    logfn = os.path.join(tempdir, logbase)
     if loglink:
         bb.utils.remove(loglink)
 
         try:
-           os.symlink(logfn, loglink)
+           os.symlink(logbase, loglink)
         except OSError:
            pass