[Buildroot] [PATCH v9] toolchain: create symlink ARCH_LIB_DIR->lib in addition to lib32/lib64->lib
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Tue Jan 19 18:29:47 UTC 2016
Thomas², Peter, All,
On 2016-01-19 17:01 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >>> In earlier versions of the patch, I stated that the symlink creation
> > >> needs to happen before gcc-initial is built. This is the reason we are
> > >> hooking into gcc-initial. This was also effectively the case before
> > >> the skeleton package was introduced.
> >
> > > Small correction, the statement is:
> > > +# The creation of lib32/lib64 symlinks into target and staging directories
> > > +# needs to be done before the C library is installed.
> >
> > And that's already the case, right? E.G. all packages depend on
> > skeleton, including the glibc/uclibc/musl packages.
>
> Ok, so that is the missing part of the puzzle.
>
> On 2015.05, where skeleton was not yet a package, and so the situation
> upon which the original patch was based, the symlinks were made in the
> .root target. To allow for this new symlink behavior, it had to be
> moved, but it had to be before the C library. The toolchain target was
> too late, gcc-initial was voted the 'best' place at the time.
>
> I was not aware that glibc already depends on skeleton. Then indeed
> ThomasP's reasoning is correct and the patch should be simplified. I
> will investigate that further and resubmit.
Skeleton is currently not a dependency of host-gcc-initial, so you'd
have to make it so.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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