build: cope with the common gen_ndr files being in the git tree

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_pidl.py b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_pidl.py
index e76e029a12..d6077c2a4a 100644
--- a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_pidl.py
+++ b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_pidl.py
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ from TaskGen import before
 import Build, os
 from samba_utils import *
 
-def SAMBA_PIDL(bld, pname, source, options='', output_dir='.'):
+def SAMBA_PIDL(bld, pname, source,
+               options='',
+               output_dir='.',
+               symlink=False):
     '''Build a IDL file using pidl.
        This will produce up to 13 output files depending on the options used'''
 
@@ -58,7 +61,21 @@ def SAMBA_PIDL(bld, pname, source, options='', output_dir='.'):
 
     t.env.PIDL = "../pidl/pidl"
     t.env.OPTIONS = TO_LIST(options)
-    t.env.OUTPUTDIR = bld.bldnode.name + '/' + bld.path.find_dir(output_dir).bldpath(t.env)
+
+    # this rather convoluted set of path calculations is to cope with the possibility
+    # that gen_ndr is a symlink into the source tree. By doing this for the source3
+    # gen_ndr directory we end up generating identical output in gen_ndr for the old
+    # build system and the new one. That makes keeping things in sync much easier.
+    # eventually we should drop the gen_ndr files in git, but in the meanwhile this works
+    outdir = bld.bldnode.name + '/' + bld.path.find_dir(output_dir).bldpath(t.env)
+
+    if not os.path.lexists(outdir):
+        link_source = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(bld.curdir,output_dir))
+        link_source = os_path_relpath(link_source, os.path.dirname(outdir))
+        os.symlink(link_source, outdir)
+
+    real_outputdir = os.path.realpath(outdir)
+    t.env.OUTPUTDIR = os_path_relpath(real_outputdir, bld.bldnode.name + '/..')
 
     if table_header_idx is not None:
         pidl_headers = LOCAL_CACHE(bld, 'PIDL_HEADERS')
@@ -68,10 +85,13 @@ def SAMBA_PIDL(bld, pname, source, options='', output_dir='.'):
 Build.BuildContext.SAMBA_PIDL = SAMBA_PIDL
 
 
-def SAMBA_PIDL_LIST(bld, name, source, options='', output_dir='.'):
+def SAMBA_PIDL_LIST(bld, name, source,
+                    options='',
+                    output_dir='.',
+                    symlink=False):
     '''A wrapper for building a set of IDL files'''
     for p in TO_LIST(source):
-        bld.SAMBA_PIDL(name, p, options=options, output_dir=output_dir)
+        bld.SAMBA_PIDL(name, p, options=options, output_dir=output_dir, symlink=symlink)
 Build.BuildContext.SAMBA_PIDL_LIST = SAMBA_PIDL_LIST