Creating simlink from yocto recipe

Question

I'm downloading libs from repository as name.so.version

SRC_URI_x86-64 = "fetch location"

do_install() {
    install -d ${D}${libdir}

    
    for file in ${WORKDIR}/location/lib*;do
        install -m 0644 $file ${D}${libdir}
    done
}

how can I in addition to coping the original files generate symbolic link filename.so to each of the files?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

do_install() {
    install -d ${D}${libdir}

    # Install all libraries into the image folder
    for file in ${WORKDIR}/location/lib*; do
        install -m 0644 $file ${D}${libdir}
    done

    # Change directory to the image folder
    cd ${D}${libdir}
    for libfile in lib*; do
        # Strip the version
        stripped_libversion=$(echo $libfile | sed 's/\.so.*/.so/')
        ln -sf $libfile $stripped_libversion
    done

    # Go back to working directory ${S} or ${WORKDIR}
    cd ${S}
}