[Buildroot] [PATCH next v4 0/6] Per-package host/target directory support

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

Here is a fourth iteration of the per-package SDK and target directory
implementation.

If you're interested in testing it, you can find the patch series at:

  http://git.bootlin.com/users/thomas-petazzoni/buildroot/log/?h=ppsh-v4

Changes since v4
================

 - Dropped patches that have been merged upstream, mainly the "extract
   dependency" patches, but also a few other preparation patches.

 - Dropped the change of the RPATH handling. As discussed during
   previous Buildroot Developers meeting, it is not a big problem if
   during the build, the RPATH of a binary points to the library
   folder of another package per-package folder. Therefore, instead of
   fixing up RPATH at the end of each package installation, we keep
   what Buildroot does today: fix them at the very end of the build.

 - Made the support for per-package folders optional. Indeed, we
   realized there was no way to make sure it would be perfect from day
   1. Even if the principle works, there are lots of package-specific
   details to solve, and solving all of them before merging the base
   per-package folder support is not reasonable. So for now, an option
   BR2_PER_PACKAGE_FOLDERS is introduced, which defaults to off. When
   this option is enabled, the .NOTPARALLEL statement of the main
   Makefile goes away, which allows to do top-level parallel build.

 - Addition of a commit that reworks how the top-level directories are
   created.

 - Introduction of a prepare-per-package-folder function in
   pkg-generic.mk to encapsulate the logic to create the per-package
   folders from the dependencies of a package.

 - Rebased on top of the latest master.

Changes since v3
================

 - Dropped patches that have been merged upstream:
   pkgconf: use relative path to  STAGING_DIR instead of absolute path
   toolchain: post-pone evaluation of  TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BIN

 - For now, removed the most controversial/complicated patches
   (changing the rpath strategy, and switching to per-package
   host/target directories). The goal for now is to merge only the
   preparation patches.

Changes since v2
================

 - Solved the problem of all DEPENDENCIES_HOST_PREREQ targets:
   host-ccache, host-tar, host-lzip, host-xz, host-fakedate.

   To achieve this, introduced <pkg>_EXTRACT_DEPENDENCIES and used
   that to handle the dependencies on host-tar, host-lzip and host-xz.

   Used regular dependencies for host-ccache and host-fakedate.

   See below for more details.

Changes since v1
================

 - Rebased on the latest Buildroot next branch

 - The pkg-config changes are reworked according to Arnout's comments:
   only @STAGING_SUBDIR@ is replaced in pkg-config.in to generate
   pkg-config, the rest of the logic is internal to the script.

 - New patch to move the "host skeleton" logic into a proper
   host-skeleton package.

 - New patch to have the CMake related files generated as part of the
   toolchain package.

 - New patch to add a new "install" step that depends on the different
   install steps (target, staging, images, host). This is needed to
   later add some logic that is executed once all install steps of a
   package have been done.

 - Fix the approach to solve the RPATH logic: instead of using
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH, we actually fix with patchelf the RPATH of host
   binaries right after their installation.

 - Misc other improvements in the per-package SDK implementation.

What is this all about ?
========================

See the cover letter of v3 for details:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2017-December/208384.html

What remains to be done?
========================

The main problem that remains is fixing packages that don't work well
with per-package folders. I have already sent a few fixes (such as
adding missing host-pkgconf dependencies, or fixing the freetype
package), but I have setup a separate autobuilder instance to test
this, and it uncovered a number of other problematic packages:

 - apr-util doesn't build, because some hardcoded paths from the "apr"
   per-package folders leak into the apr-util build.

 - Meson packages currently do not build, because pkg-meson.mk doesn't
   use $$(HOST_DIR) to reference cross-compilation.conf, but more
   importantly because cross-compilation.conf uses hardcoded paths.

 - The qt5 stack is entirely broken, because qmake hardcodes the
   installation path to be $(STAGING_DIR), so all qt5 packages install
   to the per-package $(STAGING_DIR) of qt5base. I started working on
   this topic, and will be sending a separate e-mail about this.

Best regards,

Thomas

Thomas Petazzoni (6):
  Makefile: evaluate CCACHE and HOST{CC,CXX} at time of use
  support/scripts/check-host-rpath: split condition on two statements
  Makefile: rework main directory creation logic
  Makefile: move .NOTPARALLEL statement after including .config file
  Makefile: define TARGET_DIR_WARNING_FILE relative to TARGET_DIR
  core: implement per-package SDK and target

 Config.in                        | 18 ++++++
 Makefile                         | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
 fs/common.mk                     |  3 +-
 package/pkg-generic.mk           | 27 ++++++++-
 support/scripts/check-host-rpath |  8 ++-
 5 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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