Re: [Xen-devel] mkbuildtree/lndir confused by arch symlink in hypervisor-ifs

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello!
> 
> it seems that the lndir-rel program gets confused by the arch symlink in
> xen/include/hypervisor-ifs, it creates the following tree in
> linux/include/asm-xeno/hypervisor-ifs:
> drwxr-xr-x    2 chris    users          80 Mar 11 17:06 arch
> drwxr-xr-x    2 chris    users          80 Mar 11 17:06 arch-i386
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 chris    users          44 Mar 11 17:06 arch-x86_64 ->
> .../../xen/include/hypervisor-ifs/arch-x86_64
> 
> This then fails at the make dep stage because it tries to recreate the arch
> symlink (it fails on rm arch since arch is a dir).
> 
> Removing the arch symlink in xen/include/hypervisor-ifs before running
> lndir-rel fixes the problem.
> 
>     christian

I'll take a look at this. Perhaps it won't be too hard to get rid of
lndir-rel entirely -- it's rather hideous having a native executable
hanging around in the build system.

 -- Keir


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