[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH 3/4] package.bbclass: add SHLIBSSEARCHDIRS to define where to search for shlib providers

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 01:13 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> * when package contains some files matching "^.*\.so", but in directory
>   not default linker search paths (e.g. /opt/package/bundled-lib/libfoo.so)
>   don't register it as libfoo provider, because it's possible that there
>   is different package providing libfoo.so in ${libdir} and that would
>   be better shlib provider for other packages to depend on
> * recipes providing libs intentionally in some other directory can
>   define own SHLIBSSEARCHDIRS value
> 
> [YOCTO #4628]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/package.bbclass | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> index 6c3ca56..3713fd3 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
> @@ -1307,6 +1307,9 @@ SHLIBSDIRS = "${@getshlibsdirs(d)}"
>  SHLIBSDIR = "${TMPDIR}/pkgdata/${PACKAGE_ARCH}${TARGET_VENDOR}-${TARGET_OS}/shlibs"
>  SHLIBSWORKDIR = "${PKGDESTWORK}/shlibs"
>  
> +# default search path when searching for shlibs provided by package
> +SHLIBSSEARCHDIRS ?= "${baselib} ${libdir}"
> +
>  python package_do_shlibs() {
>      import re, pipes

Did you end up setting SHLIBSSEARCHDIRS for many recipes out of
interest?

Cheers,

Richard