[Buildroot] [PATCH] core/pkg-infra: tweak only .la files that need it

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Feb 10 19:57:25 UTC 2019


Thomas, All,

On 2019-02-10 20:23 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> El dom., 10 feb. 2019 a las 9:48, Yann E. MORIN
> (<yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>) escribió:
> >
> > Currently, when we tweak the .la files, we do so unconditionally on all
> > .la files, even those we already fixed in a previous run.
> >
> > This has the nasty side effect that each .la file will be reported as
> > being touched by all packages that are installed after the package that
> > actually installed said .la file.
> >
> > Since we can't easily know what fiels were isntalled by a package (that
> 
> files
> installed
> 
> > is an instrumetnation hook, and comes after the mangling), we use a
> 
> instrumentation
> 
> > trick (like is done in libtool?): we do mangle all files, each in into a
> 
> /in/d
> 
> > temporary location; if the result is identical to the input, we remove
> > the temporary, while if the resiult differes from the output, we move
> 
> result differs

OK, so it looks like my new glasses are not up to the task of fixing
my eyesight, since I could not spot any of those mistakes when
proof-reading myself...

Or maybe it is not my eyes that are deffective, in fact?

> > the temporary to the input.
> >
> > Reported-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari at green-communications.fr>
> > Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> > Cc: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari at green-communications.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
> > ---
> >  package/pkg-generic.mk | 12 ++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > index 6168b40e89..afd0d41e2a 100644
> > --- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > +++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > @@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/%/.stamp_staging_installed:
> >                                 $(addprefix $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/,$($(PKG)_CONFIG_SCRIPTS)) ;\
> >         fi
> >         @$(call MESSAGE,"Fixing libtool files")
> > -       $(Q)find $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib* -name "*.la" | xargs --no-run-if-empty \
> > +       $(Q)for la in $(find $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib* -name "*.la"); do \

Meh... The real culp[rit for the borked patch is that $(find ...) is not
the same as $$(find ...) here... So the loop is never, ever entered, and
the issue below...

> > +               cp -a "$${la}" "$${la}.fixed" && \
> >                 $(SED) "s:$(BASE_DIR):@BASE_DIR@:g" \
> >                         -e "s:$(STAGING_DIR):@STAGING_DIR@:g" \
> >                         $(if $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR),\
> > @@ -303,7 +304,14 @@ $(BUILD_DIR)/%/.stamp_staging_installed:
> >                         $(if $(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR),\
> >                                 -e "s:@TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR@:$(TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR):g") \
> >                         -e "s:@STAGING_DIR@:$(STAGING_DIR):g" \
> > -                       -e "s:@BASE_DIR@:$(BASE_DIR):g"
> > +                       -e "s:@BASE_DIR@:$(BASE_DIR):g"; \
> 
> The semicolon shouldn't be here, right? I.e. the "$${la}.fixed" below
> is the argument to the sed command, no?

... is not noticed.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> > +                       "$${la}.fixed" && \
> > +               if cmp "$${la}" "$${la}.fixed"; then \
> > +                       rm -f "$${la}.fixed"; \
> > +               else \
> > +                       mv "$${la}.fixed" "$${la}"; \
> > +               fi || exit 1; \
> > +       done
> >         @$(call step_end,install-staging)
> >         $(Q)touch $@
> >
> 
> I did not test it but it looks a valid approach.
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas

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