create symbolic link in bitbake recipe

Question

I have a .bbappend recipe that I need to create a symbolic link in my system.

This is how it looks like now:

bernardo@bernardo-ThinkCentre-Edge72:~/y         


        

Answer 1

The cleanest solution is to use the "-r" flag:

do_install_append() {
    install -d ${D}/lib64
    ln -s -r ${D}/lib/ld-2.26.so ${D}/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 
}

From the gnu ln man page:

       -r, --relative            create symbolic links relative to link location