cache: Create a symlink for current cachefile

So that people or other tools can easily know which one is being used, just
like what we did for run.do_task and log.do_task, otherwise, we have no way
to know it. I usually use "ls -t", but it isn't reliable since the one which
is being used may not the latest one.

Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/bb/cache.py b/lib/bb/cache.py
index bec8ef775..ab18dd5ea 100644
--- a/lib/bb/cache.py
+++ b/lib/bb/cache.py
@@ -396,6 +396,15 @@ class Cache(NoCache):
         else:
             logger.debug(1, "Cache file %s not found, building..." % self.cachefile)
 
+        # We don't use the symlink, its just for debugging convinience
+        symlink = os.path.join(self.cachedir, "bb_cache.dat")
+        if os.path.exists(symlink):
+            bb.utils.remove(symlink)
+        try:
+            os.symlink(os.path.basename(self.cachefile), symlink)
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
     def load_cachefile(self):
         cachesize = 0
         previous_progress = 0