From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:39:49 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: license: Improve disk usage
X-Git-Tag: lucaceresoli/bug-15201-perf-libtraceevent-missing~32396
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe00d4f479c4fb5e4be5dda616a4de0a257ef6c3;p=thirdparty%2Fopenembedded%2Fopenembedded-core-contrib.git

license: Improve disk usage

Currently copies of the license files are made which wastes disk space
and adversely affects performance. We can link these instead in most
cases for small performance gains.

(From OE-Core rev: 0b0f3631fd22f731b6aeedb73965e367b695028b)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/meta/classes/license.bbclass b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
index 601f5611cc1..a34ea39493c 100644
--- a/meta/classes/license.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/license.bbclass
@@ -145,7 +145,14 @@ def copy_license_files(lic_files_paths, destdir):
     bb.utils.mkdirhier(destdir)
     for (basename, path) in lic_files_paths:
         try:
-            ret = shutil.copyfile(path, os.path.join(destdir, basename))
+            src = path
+            dst = os.path.join(destdir, basename)
+            if os.path.exists(dst):
+                os.remove(dst)
+            if (os.stat(src).st_dev == os.stat(destdir).st_dev):
+                os.link(src, dst)
+            else:
+                shutil.copyfile(src, dst)
         except Exception as e:
             bb.warn("Could not copy license file %s: %s" % (basename, e))