[Buildroot] [PATCH] support/scripts/check-bin-arch: ignore symbolic links

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Sun,  3 Sep 2017 16:09:41 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Since commit da32b49f0091ee9dfb613e0f00973bf6893bfa84
> ("instrumentation: extend packages-file-list.txt with symlinks and
> directories"), the packages-file-list.txt also contains symbolic
> links. Therefore, check-bin-arch is now also checking symbolic links.
> 
> However, symbolic links in $(TARGET_DIR) can have absolute path as
> targets, such as:
> 
> $ ls -l output/target/sbin/ifdown
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 thomas thomas 10 Sep  3 15:55 output/target/sbin/ifdown -> /sbin/ifup
> 
> Therefore, we are now potentially checking a host binary, which
> obviously makes check-bin-arch fail.
> 
> This commit changes check-bin-arch to ignore symbolic links. Indeed,
> we have two cases:
> 
>  - The symbolic link really points to something that will in the
>    rootfs (such as /sbin/ifup above). In this case, /sbin/ifup will be
>    checked separately by check-bin-arch.
> 
>  - The symbolic link doesn't point to something that will be in the
>    rootfs, and that is not a problem from the perspective of
>    check-bin-arch, which checks the architecture of target binaries.
> 
> Fixes:
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/16d384a0183d477646ac7692feb65f00dde7d068/
>   (vim)
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/50429c0f63a8befff9e20899327b9a8d754d99be/
>   (ifupdown)
> 
>   http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/1db65973e782bfa61abcbccd3501bfd235f77288/
>   (gawk)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  support/scripts/check-bin-arch | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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