[OE-core] meta-toolchain doesn't compile working binaries

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:49:09PM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 5/6/14, 4:44 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> >On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:25:15PM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> >>On 5/6/14, 3:56 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> >>>On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> >>>>Do you know that OE toolchain is not relocatable?
> >>>
> >>>is that true ?
> >>>
> >>
> >>It's the load path of the executables, they use the libc-nativesdk,
> >>so they need a hard path to the correct ld.so to get started.
> >
> >More specifically, it's PT_INTERP section of the ELF header in every binary
> >that hardcodes the full path to our own dynamic linker/loader (i.e. mentioned
> >libc-nativesdk). I wish it would support the use of $ORIGIN similar to RPATH
> >and RUNPATH for libraries, but I bet there are all kinds of corner cases with
> >that... :)
> >
> 
> $ORIGIN, RPATH and RUNPATH are all implemented by the ld.so, there
> is no way to dynamically assign the interpreter (ld.so).

Yes, the above wish was highly abstract and hypothetical and would probably 
require kernel to support $ORIGIN used in the ELF header... But I'm not 
suggesting it, just speculating! :)

-- 
Denys