[Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] glibc: install glibc utils to target

[Yann E. MORIN]

Re,

On 2019-11-23 13:40 +0100, Yann E. MORIN spake thusly:
> On 2019-11-23 08:17 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 7:53 AM Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
[--SNIP--]
> > The usual path of these utilities on non-merged-usr systems (e.g. RHEL-6) is:
> > 
> >      [root at rhel-6-1 ~]# which getconf ldconfig ldd
> >     /usr/bin/getconf
> >     /sbin/ldconfig
> >     /usr/bin/ldd
> 
> I also considered this before applying, and the locations on Ubuntu
> (Debian) are the same as you report on RHEL.

Actually, ldconfig is in /usr/sbin/ldconfig here, so the locations do
not seem to be that traditional either.

But that's been "fixed" now, so all is good I guess...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> But in the end, I considered it was a minor issue, for a few reasons:
> 
>  1. it not very important where a program lies, as long as it can be
>     found in the PATH
> 
>  2. we mostly only care when there are two or more packages providing
>     those programs, and we want them all to install those in the same
>     location (so that we don't have two, say, ls in the PATH). But when
>     there is a single package that install programs, it is not so
>     important where it is installed (see 1.)
> 
>  3. the code snippet was suggested by Thomas in v1 of the patchset, so
>     that is authoritative too ;-)
> 
> So I applied.
> 
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
> 
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