Re: Getting rid of (many) dynamic link creations in the xen build

["Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>]

On 15.10.20 12:09, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 15.10.2020 09:58, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> After a short discussion on IRC yesterday I promised to send a mail
>> how I think we could get rid of creating dynamic links especially
>> for header files in the Xen build process.
>>
>> This will require some restructuring, the amount will depend on the
>> selected way to proceed:
>>
>> - avoid links completely, requires more restructuring
>> - avoid only dynamically created links, i.e. allowing some static
>>     links which are committed to git
> 
> While I like the latter better, I'd like to point out that not all
> file systems support symlinks, and hence the repo then couldn't be
> stored on (or the tarball expanded onto) such a file system. Note
> that this may be just for viewing purposes - I do this typically at
> home -, i.e. there's no resulting limitation from the build process
> needing symlinks. Similarly, once we fully support out of tree
> builds, there wouldn't be any restriction from this as long as just
> the build tree is placed on a capable file system.
> 
> As a result I'd like to propose variant 2´: Reduce the number of
> dynamically created symlinks to a minimum. This said, I have to
> admit that I haven't really understood yet why symlinks are bad.
> They exist for exactly such purposes, I would think.

Another option would be to create the needed links from ./configure
instead of committing them to git.


Juergen