[oe] Request for branch merge

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 09:45 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> There's two uglies here.  Ugly one, above.  Quoting isn't nice to read
> and gdb/gcc/binutils are special.  It does however, work from the
> get-go.  And the only cases it doesn't get right, right off the bat are
> some perl (and possibly python) module cases where we aren't giving the
> right relative path there, but we can always figure it out and fix that
> up per recipe.  Ugly two, the chrpath way.  Depends on having a big
> enough RPATH in the initial binary to patch over.  Doesn't work if the
> RPATH isn't long enough as you say, which is why you can't do it on
> -cross.  

I've done the maths and it will always work within the sysroots/staging
directory as there is always enough length available. Since we want rid
of /cross/ for various reasons anyway I don't think this is a reason
against this approach.

Cheers,

Richard