[Buildroot] [RFC] Relocatable host tools

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Thomas,

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:11:27 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:

> I believe this is one step closer to having a relocatable host SDK for
> Buildroot. While I'm not claiming (nor have I tested) a completely
> relocatable host SDK, by changing the RPATH from an absolute path to
> '$ORIGIN/../lib'.
> 
> '$ORIGIN' here is a literal string encoded in the ELF binary and
> replaced at runtime by the location of the binary. So, a binary
> originally created in /home/foo/buildroot/output/host/usr/bin and run
> from there will expect its libraries in
> /home/foo/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib, but the same binary copied
> and run from /tmp/hostsdk/bin will expect its libraries in
> /tmp/hostsdk/lib.

Have you seen:

  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494781/
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494782/
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494783/
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494784/
  http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/494785/

Thomas
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