Re: if_igb.ko symbolic link generation is still messed up in that it hard wires the path at installkernel time, messing up copying to other places

On Sat, 2017-09-09 at 15:31 -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> Mark Millard <markmi_at_dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > 
> > # ls -lTt /media/boot/kernel/if_igb.ko /mnt/boot/kerndb/if_igb.ko
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  25 Sep  8 22:47:36 2017
> > /mnt/boot/kerndb/if_igb.ko -> /mnt/boot/kernel/if_em.ko
> > lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  68 Sep  6 20:27:20 2017
> > /media/boot/kernel/if_igb.ko -> /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/clang-cortexA53-
> > installkernel/boot/kernel/if_em.ko
> > 
> > In both of these cases the /mnt and /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/ prefixes
> > would not exist for booting the PINE64 that the USB SSD is for:
> > so file not found if a usage attempt is made.
> Yes, when making symlinks in presence of DESTDIR, the src should have
> $DESTDIR removed - the following should usually be safe:
> 
> ln -s ${src#$DESTDIR} $DESTDIR${target#$DESTDIR}
> 

I think the modern fix for this would be "install -l rs $src $DESTDIR",
that should result in if_igb.ko -> if_em.ko without any dir nodes in
the link.

-- Ian