[oe] Request for branch merge

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 17:05 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 08:41 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:33 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 
> > > * Added relocatable binary processing from Poky for -native binaries 
> > >   using chrpath. This isn't enabled for -cross packages due to the 
> > >   relative path length problems.
> > 
> > Is there a reason to not use $ORIGIN here instead?
> 
> This *is* using $$ORIGIN. We're just postprocessing to do the injection.
> 
> >   The patch Chris
> > Larson posted ages ago does get this right (the hard part is
> > gcc/gdb/binutils due to the multi configure running).
> 
> This class automatically handles all that without having all those
> horrible escaped strings that are likely to break each time we change
> versions or add new packages.

FWIW, the patch I use to make gcc/gdb/binutils work is actually
identical between these three packages.  I don't think it breaking from
version to version is a concern.

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Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Mentor Graphics Corporation