On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 08:42:35AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > 
> > > On Oct 7, 2017, at 16:33, Sean Bruno <sbr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Author: sbruno
> > > Date: Sat Oct  7 23:33:14 2017
> > > New Revision: 324406
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/324406
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >  Fix symlink if_igb.ko in -current such that its relative and doesn't
> > >  end up with non-standard DESTDIR information in its symlink.  This
> > >  can happen very trivially if the release scripts are used.
> > > 
> > >  Sponsored by:    Limelight Networks
> > > 
> > > Modified:
> > >  head/sys/modules/em/Makefile
> > > 
> > > Modified: head/sys/modules/em/Makefile
> > > ==============================================================================
> > > --- head/sys/modules/em/Makefile    Sat Oct  7 23:30:57 2017    (r324405)
> > > +++ head/sys/modules/em/Makefile    Sat Oct  7 23:33:14 2017    (r324406)
> > > @@ -23,6 +23,6 @@ CFLAGS += -I${SRCTOP}/sys/dev/e1000
> > > #CFLAGS  += -DDEVICE_POLLING
> > > 
> > > afterinstall:
> > > -    ln -sf ${DESTDIR}${KMODDIR}/${KMOD}.ko ${DESTDIR}${KMODDIR}/if_igb.ko
> > > +    cd ${DESTDIR}${KMODDIR} && ln -sf if_em.ko if_igb.ko
> > 
> > While this is definitely better, the same thing could be achieved via:
> > 
> > ln -sf if_em.ko ${DESTDIR}/.../if_igb.ko
> 
> Should this be using SYMLINK+= as I thought using ln -sf was a breakage
> for meta mode stuff?

At the very least it should use INSTALL_LIBSYMLINK or INSTALL_RLIBSYMLINK.
Direct use of ln(1) is always a bug in install targets and ideally we
would make it fail.  (It breaks NO_ROOT installs by failing to add an
entry to the METALOG file).

-- Brooks

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