[Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-generic: use readlink instead of realpath

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Dec 6 21:19:21 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Sat,  1 Dec 2018 22:51:55 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> realpath is missing on oldish distributions, like Debian 7, which is
> still sued in the wild.
> 
> Use readlink instead; that has been available since the dawn of ages now
> (well, coreutils had it in 2003).
> 
> Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  package/pkg-generic.mk | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Seems like I forgot to say that I had applied this patch, on December
2. So: applied, thanks!

Thomas
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