Dear Alexey,
thanks a lot for your reply, now I get it.
The path in 1st argument is relative to 2nd argument, and what I thought
before was that it's relative to S="${workdir}".
Best wishes
Alexey Zapparov <[email protected]> 于2022年7月23日周六 04:50写道：
> `dosym target link_name` creates a symlink. Under the hood it calls `ln`.
> First argument may be either absolute path or relative to link_name.
> Conventionally relative targets are used.
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, 16:56 Fabulous Zhang Zheng, <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good evening, dear list
>>
>> Most binary package ebuilds have such a *dosym* statement in
>> src_install(), take net-im/signal-desktop-bin as an example:
>>
>> dosym ../../opt/Signal/${MY_PN} /usr/bin/${MY_PN} (where the variable
>> is signal-desktop)
>>
>> *dosym* creates a symlink of the binary under opt at /usr/bin/ according
>> to devmanaul.
>>
>> I'm confused about the "../../", since S="${workdir}", the correct way
>> seems to be "dosym ./opt/Signal/xxx /usr/bin/xxx"
>>
>> It's much appreciated if anyone could help ; )
>>
>>
>> └── signal-desktop-bin-5.50.0
>> ├── distdir
>> │ └── signal-desktop_5.50.0_amd64.deb ->
>> /var/cache/distfiles/signal-desktop_5.50.0_amd64.deb
>> ├── files -> /var/db/repos/gentoo/net-im/signal-desktop-bin/files
>> ├── homedir
>> ├── temp
>> │ ├── build.log
>> │ ├── eclass-debug.log
>> │ ├── environment
>> │ └── logging
>> └── work
>> ├── opt
>> └── usr
>>
>>
