Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2017 15:31:50 -0700
From:      "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
To:        Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Toolchain <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: if_igb.ko symbolic link generation is still messed up in that it hard wires the path at installkernel time, messing up copying to other places
Message-ID:  <75575.1504996310@kaos.jnpr.net>
In-Reply-To: <FCCBB38A-CE76-4F20-80E7-EA3640F5EFC5@dsl-only.net>
References:  <FCCBB38A-CE76-4F20-80E7-EA3640F5EFC5@dsl-only.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote:
> # ls -lTt /media/boot/kernel/if_igb.ko /mnt/boot/kerndb/if_igb.ko
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  25 Sep  8 22:47:36 2017 /mnt/boot/kerndb/if_i=
gb.ko -> /mnt/boot/kernel/if_em.ko
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  68 Sep  6 20:27:20 2017 /media/boot/kernel/if=
_igb.ko -> /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/clang-cortexA53-installkernel/boot/kernel/if_=
em.ko
> =

> In both of these cases the /mnt and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/ prefixes
> would not exist for booting the PINE64 that the USB SSD is for:
> so file not found if a usage attempt is made.

Yes, when making symlinks in presence of DESTDIR, the src should have
$DESTDIR removed - the following should usually be safe:

ln -s ${src#$DESTDIR} $DESTDIR${target#$DESTDIR}




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?75575.1504996310>