Using links for gentoo prefix

keymon · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2011 Posts: 7

Hello,

I want to know if it is ok if I use links in one of the subdirectories of my $EPREFIX.

Something like:

/shared-nfs-location/local/solaris-i386/gentoo-prefix/ -> gentoo-prefix.prod

The reason is that I have everything on a shared NFS, for all servers (I know it is not a good idea, but it is how they have it installed) and I want to be able to compile critical stuff (like perl, gcc) in other location before apply the changes in the shared location.

My main problem is that I have already everyhing in the shared nfs location, and I do not want to recompile everything now.

My idea is do this when I need to recompile something:

/shared-nfs-location/local/solaris-i386/gentoo-prefix/ -> /local-location/gentoo-prefix
/local-location/gentoo-prefix -> /shared-nfs-location/local/solaris-i386/gentoo-prefix-testing/

Will I have problems if I use links? Maybe some packages compute their real location.

chithanh · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:23 pm Post subject:

Some packages have hardcoded paths in their files and will break if you use symlinks.

You can use binpkgs to transfer packages between prefixes, with some restrictions (build ${EPREFIX} must be of longer or equal length to install ${EPREFIX})

grobian · Developer Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 67

also, gcc doesn't like symlinks, and will compute the real path in use (following the symlinks)
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