[OE-core] prelink issue with ppc64?

[Kumar Gala]

On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> On 8/3/11 9:53 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/3/11 12:35 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>> If prelink gets a chance to properly run I get a rootfs that does:
>>>> 
>>>> /sbin/init: relocation error: /lib64/libc.so.6: symbol _rtld_global_ro, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld64.so.1 with link time reference
>>>> 
>>>> if 'baselib' is set to /lib we get:
>>>> 
>>>> /local/home/galak/git/poky/build-p5020/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/sbin/prelink: /sbin/init.sysvinit: Using /lib/ld64.so.1, not /lib64/ld64.so.1 as dynamic linker
>>>> 
>>>> if 'baselib' is set to /lib64 we get:
>>>> 
>>>> Assigned virtual address space slots for libraries:
>>>> /lib64/ld64.so.1                                             00000080f4910000-00000080f49473d0
>>>> /lib64/libc.so.6                                             00000080f4950000-00000080f4afe090
>>>> /lib64/libdl.so.2                                            00000080f4b10000-00000080f4b23520
>>>> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1                                         00000080f4b10000-00000080f4b57708
>>>> /lib64/libutil.so.1                                          00000080f4b10000-00000080f4b234a0
>>>> Would prelink /lib64/ld-2.13.so
>>>> Would prelink /lib64/libc-2.13.so
>>>> 
>>>> Not sure what prelink is doing but it seems to breaking things.  Any ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> ---
>>>> 
>>>> I'm also concerned that we use /etc/prelink.conf when invoking prelink.
>>> 
>>> Prelinker is being run within the rootfs, so the /etc/prelink.conf being used is
>>> the one inside of the image -- NOT the system version.
>> 
>> Is this because of psuedo or something else?
> 
> In the cross prelinker, we pass in the --root=<image>.  This instructs the
> cross-prelinker to prefix <image> to most paths.
> 
>>> I would suspect that the cross-prelinker rtld emulation is likely setup for the
>>> LSB style library paths and may be causing some of the problems.
> 
> You can run the cross-prelinker's rtld emulation by running the prelink-rtld
> program located in build/tmp-eglibc/work/x86_64-linux/usr/sbin/prelink-rtld
> 
> Passing --root=<path> will setup the sysroot path for reference, adding in
> --target-paths will allow you to pass further arguments as referenced on the
> sysroot.
> 
> So prelink-rtld --root=/foo/bar/build/sysroot/image --target-paths /sbin/init
> 
> Should give you back an ldd like syntax within the sysroot, for /sbin/init.
> (without --target-paths, you need to specify the full path to the /sbin/init..
> this is useful when running the rtld against items outside of the image.)
> 
>>> 
>>> I'd suggest simply disabling prelink and getting everything to work first.. once
>>> it does we can work through any prelinker issues.  (Prelink on PPC64 hasn't been
>>> tested within the oe-core environment.. so it could very well have issues beyond
>>> the ld.so path.)
>> 
>> Everything else is working, so prelink is what fails for me (at least for a simple minimal) build.
>> 
>> any suggestions on how to try and debug further, who might be more familiar with prelink and what its doing?  When I ran readelf -a on ld-2.13.so after prelink was getting weird results, not sure if thats normal or not.
> 
> I'm the prelink maintainer for Yocto, however I know more about the way the
> cross-prelinker functionality works then how the ELF specific prelink functions
> work.  I've been relying on the upstream prelink project to manage the
> individual architecture/ABI prelink standards.
> 
> My suggestion is to disable cross-prelinking, and revert to the upstream prelink
> project -- run the binary on the target and see if it fails in the same way.  If
> it does, then we know it's a deeper problem then the cross prelink integration.
> 
> You can pull down the git repository:  git://git.yoctoproject.org/prelink-cross.git
> 
> The "master" branch is identical to the upstream SVN branch.  The
> "cross_prelink" branch is the current state of integration.

So running prelink on target seems ok.  I used the version from prelink_git.bb.

- k