From 6ae3b85eaffd1b0b6914422e8de7c1230723157d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 20:23:34 +0000 Subject: scripts: add lnr (link relative) lnr is a simple script to generate relative symlinks from absolute paths, similar to "ln -r" but without requiring coreutils 8.16 (Ubuntu 12.04 and others currently ship 8.13). Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> --- scripts/lnr | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100755 scripts/lnr diff --git a/scripts/lnr b/scripts/lnr new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..9dacebe095 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/lnr @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +#! /usr/bin/env python + +# Create a *relative* symlink, just like ln --relative does but without needing +# coreutils 8.16. + +import sys, os + +if len(sys.argv) != 3: + print "$ lnr TARGET LINK_NAME" + sys.exit(1) + +target = sys.argv[1] +linkname = sys.argv[2] + +if os.path.isabs(target): + if not os.path.isabs(linkname): + linkname = os.path.abspath(linkname) + start = os.path.dirname(linkname) + target = os.path.relpath(target, start) + +os.symlink(target, linkname) -- cgit v1.2.3