HI, I wrote the symlink support in barebox But I Worte a partial support only end path file not dirs As this is a boot loader not an OS Best Regards, J. > On 30 Jun 2017, at 9:28 PM, Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I know there were changes to do with links to directories in v2017.07.0, but this looks like a bug in readlink with the -f option: > > barebox@fred:/ ls -l /mnt/root > lrwxrwxrwx 7 bin -> usr/bin > drwxr-xr-x 304 boot > drwxr-xr-x 160 dev > drwxr-xr-x 1920 etc > drwxrwsr-x 160 home > lrwxrwxrwx 7 lib -> usr/lib > drwxr-xr-x 160 mnt > dr-xr-xr-x 160 proc > drwx------ 160 root > drwxr-xr-x 160 run > lrwxrwxrwx 8 sbin -> usr/sbin > drwxr-xr-x 224 srv > drwxr-xr-x 160 sys > drwxrwxrwt 160 tmp > drwxr-xr-x 480 usr > drwxr-xr-x 544 var > barebox@fred:/ readlink -f /mnt/root/lib libdir > barebox@fred:/ echo $libdir > /usr > > (I expected $libdir to contain "/mnt/root/usr/lib" here, as it did in barebox v2017.06.1.) > > (Let's try it without the -f option....) > > barebox@fred:/ readlink /mnt/root/lib libdir2 > barebox@fred:/ echo $libdir2 > usr/lib > > (That is the same as barebox v2017.06.1.) > > -- > -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> )=- > -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=- > > _______________________________________________ > barebox mailing list > barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox