[OE-core] [PATCH] eglibc-initial: Ensure symlinks point to the correct location when built from sstate cache

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 13:02 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 13:30 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:26:04PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > If the sstate files are installed into a sysroot from the sstate cache,
> > > the directory to the main sysroot can change and the symlinks aren't
> > > adjusted to account for this. This is a problem specific to the toolchain
> > > bootstrap process. This patch adds up a function to recreate the
> > > symlinks, hence ensuring they always point at the correct location.
> > 
> > Similar issue is IMHO in python and apr (and probably more)
> > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-November/012149.html
> 
> Its similar but not that similar. The toolchain sysroots are special in
> that the bootstrap one needs to refer to the non-bootstrap one via
> symlinks.
> 
> The path references you mention above should be detected by the sstate
> relocation code and fixed up automatically. It sounds like the search
> and replace expressions we're using aren't catching every reference we
> need to which is a different problem.

As a hint, I think:

SSTATE_SCAN_CMD ?= "find ${SSTATE_BUILDDIR} \( -name "*.la" -o -name "*-config" \) -type f"

might need "Makefile" adding to that list of files to mangle...

Cheers,

Richard