[oe] [RFC] Fix udev pulling in libvolume-id-dev

[Khem Raj]

On (15/01/09 07:56), Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 15-01-09 07:14, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
>
>> libvolume-id-dev does not provide the actual .so library, but it contains a
>> symlink in /usr/lib, which points to /lib/libvolume.so.0 (the host one!)
>> instead of ../../lib/ one...
>
> That's the intended behaviours, since installing the packages will have  
> it point to ${libdir}/libvolume.so.0 on your device. I'm not sure if we  
> want to patch every package to use relative symlinks.

We would use -dev packages on staged area normally to compile other apps
depending on a given packge if we do not fix the symlink I think it will
try to link to wrong library.


>
>> The first patch attached fixes this in udev and should be a no brainer. Unless
>> someone objects, I'll push it in in a day or two.
>>
>> Since I was debugging the code which actually does this shlib magic in
>> package.bbclass, I thought it might be useful to prevent this kind of issues
>> in the future by skipping symlinks while looking for SONAME/NEEDED in the
>> objdump - please see the second patch attached and provide feedback.
>
> The change to package.bbclass looks OK to me, if that gets applied we  
> can leave out the udev patch.
>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>
>
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