[OE-core] [RFC] Fix libgcc nativesdk to install libgcc.a in good location for tools

[James Limbouris]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Matthew McClintock
> Sent: Thursday, 27 October 2011 11:07 AM
> To: openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: [OE-core] [RFC] Fix libgcc nativesdk to install libgcc.a in good location
> for tools
> 
> This fixes an issue where we cannot find -lgcc when linking. We
> update the path to libgcc.a so the library can be installed
> correctly
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew McClintock <msm at freescale.com>
> ---
> I really doubt this is the correct fix and I'm no expert but it's
> here for comments. This fixes a real u-boot cross compile build
> issue
> 
> The previous mv command was failing as the files did not exist
> and I also rejiggered the packages since I was not sure if
> gdb-cross-canadian-powerpc-dev was included in my tarball of
> the toolchain
> 
>  meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgcc_4.6.bb |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgcc_4.6.bb b/meta/recipes-
> devtools/gcc/libgcc_4.6.bb
> index 63a46ec..7f3ac55 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgcc_4.6.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/gcc/libgcc_4.6.bb
> @@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ PACKAGES = "\
>    ${PN}-dev \
>    "
> 
> -FILES_${PN} = "${base_libdir}/libgcc*.so.*"
> +FILES_${PN} = "${base_libdir}/libgcc*"
>  FILES_${PN}-dev = " \
> -  ${base_libdir}/libgcc*.so \
>    ${libdir}/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/crt* \
>    ${libdir}/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/libgcc*"
> 
> @@ -29,9 +28,10 @@ do_install () {
>  	if [ -f ${D}${libdir}/nof/libgcc_s.so ]; then
>  		mv ${D}${libdir}/nof/libgcc* ${D}${base_libdir}
>  	else
> -		mv ${D}${libdir}/libgcc* ${D}${base_libdir} || true
> +		cp ${D}${libdir}/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/libgcc*
> ${D}${base_libdir}
>  	fi
> 
> +
>  	chown -R root:root ${D}
>  	chmod +x ${D}${base_libdir}/libgcc_s.so.*
>  }
> --
> 1.7.6.1
> 

Is this perhaps related to the following issue: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-October/011556.html ?
Some builds had trouble finding libgcc due to a sysroot misconfiguration, which has since been fixed in master.

James