[OE-core] lconfig-native is not endian safe

[Kamble, Nitin A]

I have updated the ldconfig-native to match the version of eglibc 2.12.1, but that still does not solve the endienness problem of cross ppc.

Thanks,
Nitin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Mark Hatle
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:44 AM
> To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] lconfig-native is not endian safe
> 
> On 3/30/11 9:47 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Poky has had a ldconfig-native recipe in for a while. Back in the
> times
> > our RPATHS were totally broken adding in an ld.so.cache was useful.
> In
> > modern times I'm having trouble working out when this would be useful
> on
> > a standard system as libraries are pretty much always in one of the
> two
> > default search locations.
> >
> > ldconfig-native is 32/64 bit safe. I've just been looking at PPC and
> it
> > is certainly not endian safe though. The endianess of the target
> system
> > need to match that of the build system for it to work. It wouldn't be
> > much work to make it endian safe though although the codebase will
> > diverge further from that in (e)glibc though.
> >
> > Short term we need to disable it at least for ppc, longer term what
> > should we do?
> 
> On ARM, are the structures packed in the same way as the target system?
> 
> I know I prefer to NOT use ldconfig in the systems I design, but I
> understand
> why people want it.
> 
> I suggest we disable it on PPC for now, and work on updating endian
> support,
> (packing if necessary) and make sure that it supports the latest
> ldconfig
> features of being able to use referenced directories and such.
> 
> --Mark
> 
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
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