Some packages create a symlink for gettext-tiny in .../per-package/PKGNAME/host/share e.g.: lrwxrwxrwx 72 matuschd matuschd 84 Jun 9 11:49 /home/matuschd/buildroot-4/per-package/xkeyboard-config/host/share/gettext -> /home/matuschd/buildroot-4/per-package/host-gettext-tiny/host/usr/share/gettext-tiny However, cairo and fontconfig, create a directory with a subdirectory "its": ls -l /home/matuschd/buildroot-4/per-package/python-pycairo/host/share/gettext total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 matuschd matuschd 4096 Jun 9 11:54 its As the result, the final rsync fails as the directory is non-empty: rsync -a --link-dest=/home/matuschd/buildroot-4/per-package/alsa-utils/host/ /home/matuschd/buildroot-4/per-package/alsa-utils/host/ /home/matuschd/buildroot-4/host cannot delete non-empty directory: share/gettext could not make way for new symlink: share/gettext rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1196) [sender=3.1.2] Makefile:737: recipe for target 'host-finalize' failed make[1]: *** [host-finalize] Error 23 Makefile:84: recipe for target '_all' failed make: *** [_all] Error 2 This way, the PER_PACKAGE_DIRECTORY setting can't be used I'm not sure at what point this should be fixed
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