[OE-core] [PATCH] relocatable.bbclass: do not erease already existing ORIGIN

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:09:41PM +0100, Henning Heinold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while building openjdk I discovered that relocatable.bbclass strips
> all PATHS with ORIGIN, that is problematic, when binaries like an jdk
> is installed not in the standard paths /lib or /usr/lib.
> 
> This patch let all exisiting ORIGIN stay in the binary. So
> far I only saw problems with some perl-native libs, where chrpath fails
> now, because the path is to long. But it seems they work anyway.
> 
> While letting the path stay in binary it occurs that whitespaces at the end
> of the last path sneaked some how in. So I made re.sub line to clean this up.
> 
> Bye Henning
> 
> PS: I have to appologize, that I send it to oe-dev before.

I replied to the oe-dev thread, but I have some concerns I need to work
out about this patch since perl is in a similar situation already.  And
that some perl-native libs are complaining after this patch is also
worrying given how much of a pain perl+$ORIGIN can be.

-- 
Tom