[yocto] Errors building with Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows)

[Burton, Ross]

On 27 September 2017 at 21:59, Bryan Evenson <bevenson at melinkcorp.com>
wrote:

>
> I think I found the problem.  I started looking at more file properties
> for the files that worked and the ones that didn’t, and I noticed that all
> the ones that failed show a link count of 1024.  The Windows filesystem has
> a link limit of 1023 links per file (at least as reported here:
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> aa363860(v=vs.85).aspx), so I think the hard link is failing due to the
> Windows link limit.  If that is the case, then I don’t think it’ll be a
> quick fix to get a working solution under WSL.
>

That link count doesn't seem feasible though...  we hardlink frequently
during a recipe build, but I'd expect to see 10 links, not over a
thousand.  You've definitely found the problem, just need to figure out
what is causing such excessive linking,

Ross
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