[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr

[Mike Williams]

Yann,

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Arnout, All,
>
> On 2015-09-02 23:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> > On 02-09-15 22:59, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > > On 02-09-15 00:55, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > >> systemd is incresaingly expected things to live in /usr/bin or
> > >> /usr/sbin.
> > >>
> > >> However, a lot of packages stil install stuff directly into /bin or
> > >> /sbin.
> > >>
> > >> Add an option so that /bin and /sbin be symlinks to /usr/bin and
> > >> /usr/sbin. Ditto for .lib for consistency.
> >
> >  One more thing: it would be good to mention explicitly in the commit log that
> > /lib64 (or /lib32 or /libx32) doesn't need to be handled because that is already
> > a symlink to lib.
>
> Yeah, I almost mentionned them, but refrained from doing so, as I thought
> it was already well-known that they were synlinks already.
>
> But I'll add this before I resubmit.


The systemd build failed for me unless I modified systemd.mk as such:

-- a/package/systemd/systemd.mk
+++ b/package/systemd/systemd.mk
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ endif

SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += \
       --with-rootprefix= \
-       --with-rootlibdir=/lib \
       --enable-static=no \
       --disable-manpages \
       --disable-selinux \
@@ -37,7 +36,6 @@ SYSTEMD_CONF_OPTS += \
       --with-dbuspolicydir=/etc/dbus-1/system.d \
       --with-dbussessionservicedir=/usr/share/dbus-1/services \
       --with-dbussystemservicedir=/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services \
-       --enable-split-usr \
       --disable-efi \
       --disable-gnuefi \
       --disable-tests \

Once those changes were made everything worked fine so feel free to
add my Tested-by: Mike Williams <mike at mikebwilliams.com> if your next
patch spin includes them.

Mike