[Buildroot] [git commit] docs/manual: add appendix about $(HOST_DIR)/usr

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Sep 6 20:13:40 UTC 2017


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=c8f51a00d8ecb40ce3c46beb0da7f228f67cb551
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Reported-by: Adam Duskett <aduskett at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Cc: Adam Duskett <aduskett at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 docs/manual/migrating.txt | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/manual/migrating.txt b/docs/manual/migrating.txt
index 24ea2e0..92e487c 100644
--- a/docs/manual/migrating.txt
+++ b/docs/manual/migrating.txt
@@ -44,3 +44,15 @@ Now, your br2-external tree can be used with Buildroot 2016.11 onward.
 .Note:
 This change makes your br2-external tree incompatible with Buildroot
 before 2016.11.
+
+[[migrating-host-usr]]
+=== Migrating to 2017.08
+
+Before Buildroot 2017.08, host packages were installed in +$(HOST_DIR)/usr+
+(with e.g. the autotools' +--prefix=$(HOST_DIR)/usr+). With Buildroot
+2017.08, they are now installed directly in +$(HOST_DIR)+.
+
+Whenever a package installs an executable that is linked with a library
+in +$(HOST_DIR)/lib+, it must have an RPATH pointing to that directory.
+
+An RPATH pointing to +$(HOST_DIR)/usr/lib+ is no longer accepted.


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