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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-23 18:42:18 -0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-07-23 18:42:18 -0400
commite98c029717016dfa3e5c618c9fc46da9b2142dcc (patch)
tree77a1f6aa7366091f5d2fa3307839e960dbdc07c0
parentfd63c8bfcd75624e7fbba8899365095400534e01 (diff)
Handle platforms that don't support linking to a symlink
E.g. Darwin doesn't allow this.
-rw-r--r--configure.ac12
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/optimise-store.cc9
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index a2512cfe9..f920b8c10 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -120,6 +120,18 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/mount.h], [], [],
AC_CHECK_FUNCS([lutimes])
+# Check whether the store optimiser can optimise symlinks.
+AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether it is possible to create a link to a symlink])
+ln -s bla tmp_link
+if ln tmp_link tmp_link2 2> /dev/null; then
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
+ AC_DEFINE(CAN_LINK_SYMLINK, 1, [Whether link() works on symlinks.])
+else
+ AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
+fi
+rm -f tmp_link tmp_link2
+
+
# Check for <locale>.
AC_LANG_PUSH(C++)
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([locale])
diff --git a/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc b/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
index e5bfa332d..486538bd2 100644
--- a/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/optimise-store.cc
@@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ void LocalStore::optimisePath_(OptimiseStats & stats, const Path & path)
return;
}
- /* We can hard link regular files and symlinks. */
- if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode) && !S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) return;
+ /* We can hard link regular files and maybe symlinks. */
+ if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode)
+#if CAN_LINK_SYMLINK
+ x
+ && !S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)
+#endif
+ ) return;
/* Sometimes SNAFUs can cause files in the Nix store to be
modified, in particular when running programs as root under