Re: buildlink and symlinks to directories

[Steven Drake <sbd%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Mark Davies wrote:

> qt4-tools installs a symlink to a directory
> 
> ls -l /usr/pkg/qt4/mkspecs/default
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Sep 27 01:17 /usr/pkg/qt4/mkspecs/default -
> > netbsd-g++
> 
> 
> however when buildlink creates the symlink tree for a package that 
> includes qt4-tools/buildlink3.mk this link is not copied resulting in 
> potential breakage in packages trying to use it (recent KDE's break).
> 
>  ls -l work.i386/.buildlink/qt4/mkspecs/
> total 196
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 aix-g++
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 aix-g++-64
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 aix-xlc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 aix-xlc-64
> drwxr-xr-x   9 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 common
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 cygwin-g++
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 darwin-g++
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 freebsd-g++
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 freebsd-g++34
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 freebsd-g++40
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 freebsd-icc
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  www   512 Jan 22 09:01 hpux-acc
>       [...]
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Shouldn't the following work:

BUILDLINK_FILES.qt4-tools+=     qt4/mkspecs/default 

-- 
Steven