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-rw-r--r--scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index 8944b0a34b6..7227c2efee1 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -465,7 +465,20 @@ def _extract_source(srctree, keep_temp, devbranch, sync, d, tinfoil):
os.rmdir(srctree)
initial_rev = None
- tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='devtool')
+ # We need to redirect WORKDIR, STAMPS_DIR etc. under a temporary
+ # directory so that:
+ # (a) we pick up all files that get unpacked to the WORKDIR, and
+ # (b) we don't disturb the existing build
+ # However, with recipe-specific sysroots the sysroots for the recipe
+ # will be prepared under WORKDIR, and if we used the system temporary
+ # directory (i.e. usually /tmp) as used by mkdtemp by default, then
+ # our attempts to hardlink files into the recipe-specific sysroots
+ # will fail on systems where /tmp is a different filesystem, and it
+ # would have to fall back to copying the files which is a waste of
+ # time. Put the temp directory under the WORKDIR to prevent that from
+ # being a problem.
+ tempbasedir = d.getVar('WORKDIR')
+ tempdir = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='devtooltmp-', dir=tempbasedir)
try:
tinfoil.logger.setLevel(logging.WARNING)