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Create the staging symlink the same way as the host symlink. This means
using a make dependency rather than recreating it every time.

In coreutils versions below 8.27, re-creation of symbolic links was not
atomic. This means that there is a period in time where the existing link is
removed, before the new one is created. In coreutils 8.27 this was fixed,
see [1]. Note that CentOS 7 ships with coreutils 8.22.

In the following scenario, this is a problem:

- an application is compiled using the sysroot prepared by Buildroot and
  links against Xenomai userspace libraries, but its build process is steered
  from outside of Buildroot
- to know the correct flags, the application makefile uses the 'xeno-config'
  file to request them, and passes DESTDIR=/buildroot/output/staging
- the xeno-config responds with flags based on the path
  '/buildroot/output/staging/...'
- while the application build is ongoing, a 'make' happens in Buildroot,
  causing the 'staging' symlink to be recreated (even though it already
  existed)
- when exactly at this time, the application calls the compiler with -I
  flags pointing to output/staging, the build fails with:

  -I/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include/xenomai/mercury: Error:  ^ is not a directory
  -I/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include/xenomai: Error:  ^ is not a directory
  -I/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include/xenomai/xenomai: Error:  ^ is not a directory
  -I/buildroot/output/staging/usr/include/xenomai/psos: Error:  ^ is not a directory
  Failed: ** ^ *

Work around this problem by only creating the staging symlink once, similar
to how the host symlink (if any) is created.

See also commit d0f4f95e39 which changed the
way these symlinks are made. The reasoning in this commit is to move away
from the 'dirs' target.

[1] 376967889e

Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2020-02-19 20:13:57 +01:00
arch arch/arc: explicitly set "max-page-size" for GNU LD 2019-12-25 22:09:52 +01:00
board configs/qemu{x86, x86_64}: add a serial console 2020-02-16 22:24:56 +01:00
boot boot/arm-trusted-firmware: add missing qstrip 2020-02-11 23:37:31 +01:00
configs configs/qemu{x86, x86_64}: add a serial console 2020-02-16 22:24:56 +01:00
docs Update for 2020.02-rc1 2020-02-18 23:31:02 +01:00
fs fs: don't use := when not needed 2019-10-27 10:35:06 +01:00
linux {linux, linux-headers}: bump 4.{4, 9, 14, 19}.x / 5.4.x series 2020-02-16 15:27:10 +01:00
package package/libxml2: properly set LIBXML2_IGNORE_CVES 2020-02-19 08:22:25 +01:00
support support/scripts/pkg-stats: properly ignore CVEs in <pkg>_IGNORE_CVES 2020-02-19 08:22:09 +01:00
system Revert "system: don't attempt swapon/swapoff in inittab if not available" 2020-02-08 20:13:07 +01:00
toolchain toolchain: use consistent code style for C code 2020-02-08 22:10:06 +01:00
utils utils/check-package: ignore ACLOCAL_PATH 2020-02-04 17:15:19 +01:00
.defconfig
.flake8 .flake8: fix check for 80/132 columns 2019-04-10 12:31:33 +02:00
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.gitlab-ci.yml support/testing: add runtime test for Crudini (py2 and py3) 2020-02-05 16:23:42 +01:00
.gitlab-ci.yml.in gitlab-ci: use our updated docker base image 2019-10-27 21:52:28 +01:00
CHANGES Update for 2020.02-rc1 2020-02-18 23:31:02 +01:00
Config.in core: implement per-package SDK and target 2019-11-29 14:24:05 +01:00
Config.in.legacy package/libcurl: rename curl binary config symbol 2020-02-16 11:20:23 +01:00
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DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS: add Romain Naour for toolchain topic 2020-02-15 12:00:45 +01:00
Makefile Makefile: don't recreate staging symlink if it exists 2020-02-19 20:13:57 +01:00
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README README: add reference to submitting-patches 2016-02-01 19:16:08 +01:00

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