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authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2010-06-25 14:15:20 +0200
committerThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>2010-07-07 08:14:39 +0200
commit4fdecac9d692b8d6f071ba6ad938b6ad68b675fd (patch)
tree6d84a75b10c1a09228b2055fd4640beb05bcdc03 /package/rings
parentdaa537c3349b54e59a3e06a4ecb0d086add7f5de (diff)
Solve the host tools relying on host libraries problem
We build host tools installed in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin, and some of them rely on host libraries in $(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib. So when these host tools are executed, they need to find the host libraries, which are not installed in a default location. In c1b6242fdcf2cff7ebf09fec4cc1be58963e8427 we tried to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH when building target packages to solve this problem. Unfortunately, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not only used to find libraries at run-time, but also at compile time. So it leads the build of some packages, such as icu, to fail. Therefore, in 0d1830b07db4ebfd14e77a258de6fb391e57e960, we reverted the LD_LIBRARY_PATH idea. The other option to solve this problem was to hardcode a RPATH value in the host binaries that would reference the location of host libraries. We added this -Wl,-rpath option to HOST_CFLAGS in 6b939d40f6a29a43277566adc9d4312d49cb3abf. Unfortunately, this caused problems when building binutils, as reported in bug 1789 so this change was reverted in e1a7d916e9eeaa215551740de40c055130d6c073. Then, we tried to use -Wl,-rpath in HOST_LDFLAGS, but it was causing problems with fakeroot not recognizing 'ld' as the GNU linker, since the -Wl,-rpath cannot be understood by 'ld' directly, only by 'gcc'. This commit is a new attempt at using HOST_LDFLAGS, but in this case we modified the definition of HOST_LD to *not* contain HOST_LDFLAGS. LDFLAGS are being set separatly. It solved the fakeroot issue and was tested against nearly 300 packages of Buildroot. For more details on this story, see http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-June/035580.html http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-June/035581.html http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-June/035586.html http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2010-June/035609.html https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1789 Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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