[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] package.bbclass: add SHLIBSSEARCHDIRS to define where to search for shlib providers

[Richard Purdie]

On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 15:02 +0100, 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(-)

Doesn't this mean we lose automatic dependencies for libraries not in
the default system paths after this change?

We should really be respecting the libraries RPATH in this code and
searching the places it will look...

Cheers,

Richard