[Buildroot] [PATCH] binutils: replace hard-links with soft-links to fix rpath
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Apr 23 09:22:28 UTC 2018
Thomas, All,
On 2018-04-22 14:23 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> binutils installs its binaries both as bin/<tuple>-<tool> and as
> <tuple>/bin/<tool>, and hardlinks are used to reduce disk space
> consumption. This causes a problem for host-binutils with our rpath
> fixing logic done by "make sdk".
>
> Indeed, the fix-rpath script starts by fixing up the rpath of
> bin/<tuple>-<tool>, and sets the RPATH to $ORIGIN/../lib/. Then
> fix-rpath moves on to <tuple>/bin/<tool>, and doesn't find the library
> the tool depends on, and clears the RPATH. The result is that the
> binutils tool are not usable.
>
> Note that this is only visible currently on the ARC architecture,
> because on this architecture, binutils is fetched from git, which
> causes host-flex to be built, and some binutils tools to use the libfl
> shared library. Therefore, the binutils tools don't use just the
> standard C library (which is provided by the system) but also libfl
> from $(HOST_DIR)/lib, and therefore if the RPATH isn't set correctly,
> those tools don't work properly.
So I wanted to test this, and it does what's on the can.
However, I wanted to reproduce the build failures, and here, with
current master, so I built a toolchain with buildroot [0], but none
of binutils programs is linked with libfl:
$ for i in host/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/bin/*; do
readelf -d "${i}" |grep NEEDED
done |sort -u
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libdl.so.2]
I checked, and I don't have libfl on my system, neither static not
shared, so it cant even have picked the static one from my system.
And indeed, libnl can build:
checking the archiver (/home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/host/bin/arc-buildroot-linux-uclibc-ar)interface... ar
So, I don't see the point...
[0] with this defconfig:
BR2_arcle=y
BR2_archs38=y
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BUILDROOT_CXX=y
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
> In order to address this, this comit adds a post-install hook to
> host-binutils that replaces those hard links by symbolic links. It is
> worth mentioning that library loading and RPATH usage occurs *after*
> resolving the symbolic links, which makes this solution work.
>
> Fixes:
>
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b2562b05d397d4e1ffe0f8d2f4ce4c84ab6feae1/
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
> package/binutils/binutils.mk | 12 ++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/package/binutils/binutils.mk b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
> index 13cd02b491..b24e4334c2 100644
> --- a/package/binutils/binutils.mk
> +++ b/package/binutils/binutils.mk
> @@ -130,5 +130,17 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_BINUTILS_ENABLE_LTO),y)
> HOST_BINUTILS_CONF_OPTS += --enable-plugins --enable-lto
> endif
>
> +# Hardlinks between binaries in different directories cause a problem
> +# with rpath fixup, so we de-hardlink those binaries, and replace them
> +# with symbolic links.
> +BINUTILS_TOOLS = ar as ld ld.bfd nm objcopy objdump ranlib readelf strip
> +define HOST_BINUTILS_FIXUP_HARDLINKS
> + $(foreach tool,$(BINUTILS_TOOLS),\
> + rm -f $(HOST_DIR)/$(GNU_TARGET_NAME)/bin/$(tool) ; \
> + ln -s ../../bin/$(GNU_TARGET_NAME)-$(tool) $(HOST_DIR)/$(GNU_TARGET_NAME)/bin/$(tool)
> + )
> +endef
> +HOST_BINUTILS_POST_INSTALL_HOOKS += HOST_BINUTILS_FIXUP_HARDLINKS
> +
> $(eval $(autotools-package))
> $(eval $(host-autotools-package))
> --
> 2.14.3
>
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