poky/scripts/lnr
Ross Burton 1412dda560 scripts: add lnr (link relative)
lnr is a simple script to generate relative symlinks from absolute paths,
similar to "ln -r" but without requiring coreutils 8.16 (Ubuntu 12.04 and others
currently ship 8.13).

(From OE-Core rev: 6ae3b85eaffd1b0b6914422e8de7c1230723157d)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-03-07 14:58:45 +00:00

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#! /usr/bin/env python

Create a relative symlink, just like ln --relative does but without needing

coreutils 8.16.

import sys, os

if len(sys.argv) != 3: print "$ lnr TARGET LINK_NAME" sys.exit(1)

target = sys.argv[1] linkname = sys.argv[2]

if os.path.isabs(target): if not os.path.isabs(linkname): linkname = os.path.abspath(linkname) start = os.path.dirname(linkname) target = os.path.relpath(target, start)

os.symlink(target, linkname)