[OE-core] [PATCH] patchelf: Add patchelf recipe

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The issue is one of dependencies. We need chrpath/patchelf to relocate
> things like {autoconf|automake|pkgconfig}-native. Native
> patchelf/chrpath depend on those things to build so if we don't have it
> in ASSUME_PROVIDED, we get circular dependencies.
>
> chrpath is widely available in most distros. Unfortunately patchelf is
> not. We therefore can't easily put patchelf-native into
> ASSUME_PROVIDED :(
>
> So the reason the above didn't merge hasn't really changed, much as I'd
> also wish it had.

compared to last time now debian testing/ ubuntu utopic have added it
as well. fedora,suse, gentoo and archlinux were never an issue.
we can generate a dpkg for older debian-like distros may be ? is it
worth the effort

>
> This does not stop us using patchelf for other things though (and I
> believe we should).
>