Patch for crosstool.sh in crosstool-0.37

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello, 


On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 03:21, Khem Raj wrote:
> Hi
> 
> If the build failed and I restarted the build then it will fail at 
> creating links and either I have delete the links or do a complete 
> rebuild. To avoid that I have applied this patch where I force the links 
> to be creared, to crosstools.sh and it seems to fix the problem.
> 
> --- crosstool.sh.orig   2005-07-18 18:17:19.000000000 -0700
> +++ crosstool.sh        2005-07-18 18:17:45.000000000 -0700
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
>      # instead of the location its configure script claims it searches 
> (gcc_cv_as), grr
>      mkdir -p $CORE_PREFIX/$TARGET/bin
>      for tool in ar as ld strip; do
> -       ln -s $PREFIX/bin/$TARGET-$tool $CORE_PREFIX/$TARGET/bin/$tool
> +       ln -sf $PREFIX/bin/$TARGET-$tool $CORE_PREFIX/$TARGET/bin/$tool
>      

For maximum safety when relinking, use the -n option as well.

Otherwise you end up with a link *inside* a referenced (earlier linked)
directory. (Instead of replacing the link-to-directory).

"ln -snf" is always a safe bet when (re)creating a symbolic link.

Regards,

Leon.




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