> On Oct 16, 2015, at 5:47 AM, Ahsan, Noor <noor_ah...@mentor.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that at the time of rootfs creation symbolic links of the ipk files 
> present in deploy/ipk. The problem what have it while creation of symbolic 
> link it take the full path till that ipk and remove slashes and convert them 
> into underscores. Use that as the name of the symbolic link. This make a very 
> long file names. If we have very long path then name of the symlink exceed 
> from max filename limits. And we get following error
> 
> Collected errors:
> * file_link: unable to stat 
> `/var/jenkins/workspace/mel_cedar-main/buildhost/amd-ubuntu14-32b/buildtype/iot/machine/mel-dra7xx-evm/build_mel-dra7xx-evm/tmp/work/mel_dra7xx_evm-mel-linux-gnueabi/console-image/1.0-r0/rootfs//var/cache/opkg/volatile/file:_var_jenkins_workspace_mel_cedar-main_buildhost_amd-ubuntu14-32b_buildtype_iot_machine_mel-dra7xx-evm_build_mel-dra7xx-evm_tmp_deploy_ipk_mel_dra7xx_evm_kernel-module-lttng-ring-buffer-client-mmap-overwrite_2.6.2+git0+7a88f8b506-r0.0_mel_dra7xx_evm.ipk':
>  File name too long.
> 
> Can anyone tell me why the addition of full path was added to the symlink 
> name and can we remove it cause it is cause issues?

what does

getconf PATH_MAX /

show ?

> 
> Noor
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