[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v3 16/30] py: Use ln --relative to create symlinks

[Tomi Valkeinen]

We create symlinks from the Python bindings build dir to the source dir
so that 1) the build dir can be used to use the bindings, and 2) to
allow modifications of the source .py files to be used right away
without rebuilding.

The symlinks were recently fixed and changed to use absolute paths.
However, absolute paths ruin one main use case I have: using the
bindings from the build dir via nfs from an ARM device.

So move back to relative paths, but accomplish this with the --relative
parameter for ln, instead of guessing the right relative path as was
done before the above-mentioned fix.

Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
---
 src/py/libcamera/meson.build | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/py/libcamera/meson.build b/src/py/libcamera/meson.build
index afa7efed..eb884538 100644
--- a/src/py/libcamera/meson.build
+++ b/src/py/libcamera/meson.build
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ pycamera = shared_module('_libcamera',
 # Create symlinks from the build dir to the source dir so that we can use the
 # Python module directly from the build dir.
 
-run_command('ln', '-fsT', files('__init__.py'),
+run_command('ln', '-fsrT', files('__init__.py'),
             meson.current_build_dir() / '__init__.py',
             check: true)
 
-run_command('ln', '-fsT', meson.current_source_dir() / 'utils',
+run_command('ln', '-fsrT', meson.current_source_dir() / 'utils',
             meson.current_build_dir() / 'utils',
             check: true)
 
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