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authorRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-09-12 16:39:49 +0100
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-09-16 22:12:29 +0100
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license: Improve disk usage
Currently copies of the license files are made which wastes disk space and adversely affects performance. We can link these instead in most cases for small performance gains. (From OE-Core rev: 0b0f3631fd22f731b6aeedb73965e367b695028b) Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--meta/classes/license.bbclass9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 601f5611cc..a34ea39493 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ def copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir):
bb.utils.mkdirhier(destdir)
for (basename, path) in lic_files_paths:
try:
- ret = shutil.copyfile(path, os.path.join(destdir, basename))
+ src = path
+ dst = os.path.join(destdir, basename)
+ if os.path.exists(dst):
+ os.remove(dst)
+ if (os.stat(src).st_dev == os.stat(destdir).st_dev):
+ os.link(src, dst)
+ else:
+ shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
except Exception as e:
bb.warn("Could not copy license file %s: %s" % (basename, e))