Revert "package/pkg-utils.mk: break hardlinks in global {TARGET, HOST}_DIR on per-package build"
Commit 21d52e52d8de (package/pkg-utils.mk: break hardlinks in global
{TARGET, HOST}_DIR on per-package build) stopped hardlink the source and
destination when rsyncing per-package directory, on the rationale that
modifying files in-place after the rsync would also modify the original
file, and that break foo-rebuild and can cause issues with post-build
scripts.
However, what 21d52e52d8de did not envision, is that copying instead of
hard-linking has two nasty side effects:
- the size increase for the build directory increase with the number
of packages and with the depth of th dependency chains for those
packages: a (relatively small) build that was previously totalling
~13GiB in output/, now totals north of 122GiB, an almost 10-time
increase;
- the build time increases, as it takes more time to read+write files
than it takes to create a new link to a file; the same build saw an
increase of build time from 5min 10s to 7min 30s, a 45% increase.
These regressions are both serious, so revert the change; we'll come up
with a stopgap measure in follow-up commits.
This reverts commit 21d52e52d8dee0940d28b3a38551eb183be37813.
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@bootlin.com>