[OE-core] [RFC] Replacing chrpath with patchelf

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 08:47 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 22 August 2012 01:21, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > May be it will be nicer to create one meta
> > package which installs
> > all prerequisites not only chrpath/patchelf and maintain that ourselves
> > this could be nicer since then user only installs
> >
> > apt-get install make-my-host-compile-oe package on ubuntu and similar
> > for others.
> 
> I used to maintain one of these for Debian years ago, and it did help a lot.

These days I'd much rather just ship a tarball with all the bits needed
contained therein. Since we can self-host and we have the nativesdk
infrastructure, this shouldn't be hard and it would work on any distro.

Cheers,

Richard