create symbolic link in bitbake recipe

Question

I have a .bbappend recipe that I need to create a symbolic link in my system.

This is how it looks like now:

bernardo@bernardo-ThinkCentre-Edge72:~/y         


        

Answer 1

Since Yocto 2.3, lnr is recommended.

e.g.

do_install_append() {
    install -d ${D}/lib64
    lnr ${D}/lib/ld-2.26.so ${D}/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 
}

Alternatively, you can also inherit relative_symlinks which will turn any absolute symlinks into relative ones, but this is less commonly used than lnr.

Cf. https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/ref-manual/ref-manual.html#migration-2.3-absolute-symlinks