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-rwxr-xr-xbin/ebuild-helpers/doins8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ebuild-helpers/doins b/bin/ebuild-helpers/doins
index 0aedcb9e5..3daa9a01a 100755
--- a/bin/ebuild-helpers/doins
+++ b/bin/ebuild-helpers/doins
@@ -55,7 +55,13 @@ _doins() {
local mysrc="$1" mydir="$2" cleanup="" rval
if [ -L "$mysrc" ] ; then
- if [ $PRESERVE_SYMLINKS = y ] ; then
+ # Our fake $DISTDIR contains symlinks that should
+ # not be reproduced inside $D. In order to ensure
+ # that things like dodoc "$DISTDIR"/foo.pdf work
+ # as expected, we dereference symlinked files that
+ # are referenced by absolute paths.
+ if [ $PRESERVE_SYMLINKS = y ] && \
+ ! [[ -f "$mysrc" && $(readlink "$mysrc") == /* ]] ; then
rm -rf "$D$INSDESTTREE/$mydir/${mysrc##*/}" || return $?
cp -P "$mysrc" "$D$INSDESTTREE/$mydir/${mysrc##*/}"
return $?