[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] flex: delete broken flex++ symlink from target

Danomi Manchego danomimanchego123 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 01:35:34 UTC 2014


When flex is built for the target without installing the
flex binary, a flex++ symlink installed by flex's Makefile
points to the missing flex executable.  This mod adds
a post target install hook to remove the broken symlink.

Signed-off-by: Danomi Manchego <danomimanchego123 at gmail.com>
---
 package/flex/flex.mk |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/package/flex/flex.mk b/package/flex/flex.mk
index 17f651b..cd92dd7 100644
--- a/package/flex/flex.mk
+++ b/package/flex/flex.mk
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ define FLEX_DISABLE_PROGRAM
 endef
 FLEX_POST_PATCH_HOOKS += FLEX_DISABLE_PROGRAM
 
+# flex++ symlink is broken when flex binary is not installed
+define FLEX_REMOVE_BROKEN_SYMLINK
+	rm -f $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/bin/flex++
+endef
+FLEX_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += FLEX_REMOVE_BROKEN_SYMLINK
+
 endif
 
 $(eval $(autotools-package))
-- 
1.7.9.5



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