Re: [gentoo-alt] horrible GCC symlink fix

[Alan Hourihane]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:48 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 31-07-2009 15:03:25 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > Can we finally get rid of the horrible GCC kludge for the symlink issue
> > in the eclass ?
> >
> > Or at the very least provide a flag in which I can turn it off without
> > having the need to go poking eclass everytime I've re-synced ?
>
> how about this compromise?
>
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
>  toolchain_pkg_setup() {
>         # yuck, but how else to do it portable?
>         local realEPREFIX=$(python -c 'import os; print os.path.realpath("'"${EPREFIX}"'")')
> -       if [[ ${EPREFIX} != ${realEPREFIX} ]] ; then
> +       if [[ -z ${I_KNOW_MY_GCC_WORKS_FINE_WITH_SYMLINKS} && ${EPREFIX} != ${realEPREFIX} ]] ; then
>                 ewarn "Your \${EPREFIX} contains one or more symlinks.  GCC has a"
>                 ewarn "bug which prevents it from working properly when there are"
>                 ewarn "symlinks in your \${EPREFIX}."
>

That'd be great, but remember that the realEPREFIX check is in more than
one place.

Thanks,

Alan.