[OE-core] [RFC PATCH v3] chrpath.bbclass: strip common parent directories from rpath

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 11:50 +0200, Andreas Oberritter wrote:
> Allows to use shorter TMPDIRs in corner cases, e.g. with native
> perl modules, having a deep directory structure.
> 
> The problem is that the original absolute rpath may be shorter
> than the newly generated relative rpath.

Can we not just fix chrpath to cope with the case where the new path is
longer than the old one?  It seems a bit sad to require
ever-more-convoluted workarounds for what is essentially a tool problem.

p.