[oe] [RFC][PATCH] meta-toolchain: make SDK relocatable by using $SDK_PATH var in env setup script

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:50 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 14:36 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 12:08 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > On (08/02/10 12:00), Tom Rini wrote:
> > > I think the prerequisites of gcc libmpfr, libgmp and libmpc from 4.5
> > > onwards are probably not used by 
> > > any other tools we stage for host so it would be safer to build them inside
> > > gcc tree and link in statically and only create runtime deps on the
> > > libraries that always exist like libc. This will have better chance of
> > > relocation. We just need to untar these libraries in top of gcc src tree
> > > and it will use cofigure and use it. But this only solves gcc issue 
> > > for other host/cross packages which depend upon libs from staging we still
> > > need a solution. 
> > 
> > I was thinking that too.  Phil, can you try on your toolchain branch to
> > do this? :)
> 
> Another generic solution I'm wondering about is postprocessing the
> cross/native binaries with chrpath. This has the benefits of no horrible
> shell quoting and its generic.

This might be nice for relocating packaged staging, more-so than SDK
(depending on what you need / want your SDK to be able to do without
OE...)

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