[OE-core] Generating a movable SDK

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Tasslehoff Kjappfot <tasskjapp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/20/2012 08:03 AM, Tasslehoff Kjappfot wrote:
>>
>> On 06/19/2012 10:33 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, Steve English <steve.english at navetas.com
>>> <mailto:steve.english at navetas.com>> wrote:
>>>  > Hi,
>>>  > I've generated a cross compiling ARM SDK
>>> (angstrom-eglibc-x86_64-armv7a-v2012.05-toolchain.tar.bz2) that works
>>> great if installed in /usr/local/oecore-x86_64. I would like to move
>>> these binaries and run them from under my home directory (on this and
>>> other host machines).
>>>  >
>>>  > I can tweak the PATH and use --sysroot where appropriate, but the ELF
>>> binaries themselves specify a loader of
>>>
>>> /usr/local/oecore-x86_64/sysroots/x86_64-angstromsdk-linux/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>>>
>>> in their .interp header. Is it possible to generate an SDK that uses the
>>> standard host loader, or at least uses a relative path for the built
>>> loader?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sdk is not install time relocatable yet there is a feature enhancement
>>> request in yo to bugzilla for the same
>>>
>> That request is mine, I think. I have gotten around this by making
>> /usr/local/oecore-i686 a symlink to where I want to keep the toolchain
>> (in a vcs). Works like a charm.
>>
>> - Tasslehoff
>
>
> But now I wish the sdk was relocatable again.
>
> As I said we have the sdk in our vcs, and a symlink in /usr/local to make
> the toolchain binaries happy. We have a build server that does continous
> builds, and she has multiple trees checked out, so the symlink-approach is
> not ideal.
>
> Any clever workaround for this (or even better, a fix to make the sdk
> relocatable)?

chroot jail could work for you... a bit more effort though.

-M


>
>
> - Tasslehoff
>
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