[PATCH] meson: src: Fix DESTDIR handling while creating dirs

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Wed Sep 9 14:38:41 UTC 2020


On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 11:25:34PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
>
> If the target path contains a link with an absolute path (e.g.
> /var/run -> /run), makedirs will target the wrong location. Resolve the
> path first, then append DESTDIR again if needed.

Can you elaborate on this? os.makedirs should follow the symlinks before
actually creating the directory hierarchy, so I'm failing to see the problem
this patch is trying to address.

Erik




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