staging: Use hardlinking for sysroot_stage_dir

This saves about 2GB on a core-image-sato build so is worth doing and is
consistent with our efforts to try and decrease our build footprint.

Build time in my local test seemed unaffected but on more IO bound
machines it should help.

(From OE-Core rev: 7136cbc64e5efb09f3fae3e2e35a181ca3d66dd4)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/staging.bbclass b/meta/classes/staging.bbclass
index 814f7bc490..3985763f4b 100644
--- a/meta/classes/staging.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/staging.bbclass
@@ -7,14 +7,11 @@ sysroot_stage_dir() {
                  return
         fi
 
-        # We only want to stage the contents of $src if it's non-empty so first rmdir $src
-        # then if it still exists (rmdir on non-empty dir fails) we can copy its contents
-        rmdir "$src" 2> /dev/null || true
-        # However we always want to stage a $src itself, even if it's empty
         mkdir -p "$dest"
-        if [ -d "$src" ]; then
-                tar -cf - -C "$src" -p . | tar -xf - -C "$dest"
-        fi
+        (
+                cd $src
+                find . -print0 | cpio --null -pdlu $dest
+        )
 }
 
 sysroot_stage_libdir() {