scripts: add lnr (link relative)

lnr is a simple script to generate relative symlinks from absolute paths,
similar to "ln -r" but without requiring coreutils 8.16 (Ubuntu 12.04 and others
currently ship 8.13).

(From OE-Core rev: 6ae3b85eaffd1b0b6914422e8de7c1230723157d)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Ross Burton 2014-03-03 20:23:34 +00:00 committed by Richard Purdie
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#! /usr/bin/env python
# Create a *relative* symlink, just like ln --relative does but without needing
# coreutils 8.16.
import sys, os
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print "$ lnr TARGET LINK_NAME"
sys.exit(1)
target = sys.argv[1]
linkname = sys.argv[2]
if os.path.isabs(target):
if not os.path.isabs(linkname):
linkname = os.path.abspath(linkname)
start = os.path.dirname(linkname)
target = os.path.relpath(target, start)
os.symlink(target, linkname)