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

[Khem Raj]

On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

another option is to dump chrpath in favour of something which does it elegantly - patchelf
I had propsed patch set for that last year here

http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/patchelf


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