[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/sysrepo: fix host/staging install steps

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 09:03:27 +0100
Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem comes from the hardcoded TARGET_DIR that is compiled-in the
> needed host tools (sysrepocfg, sysrepoctl) in the build host step.
> This value is used
> as target for this tools as well as search path for other dependencies.
> With this all install steps tries to install parts into that
> TARGET_DIR. I think it is not
> really clean that this happens. When I just do the part hat only the
> tools are build in
> the host step. Then the staging will fail because there are missing
> files that are
> expected to be located in the TARGET_DIR. The tools have the hardcoded search
> path set to the TARGET_DIR.

Hum, OK. Did you talk about this with the upstream project ?

Your proposed solution is probably good as a workaround, but long term
it would be nice to have the upstream sysrepo project support better
cross-compilation, by solving those paths issues.

Thanks,

Thomas
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