[Buildroot] Bizarre things on the allyespackageconfig build
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri May 10 16:53:56 UTC 2013
Thomas, All,
On 2013-05-10 17:51 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Following the allyespackageconfig, I did explore the generated
> output/target filesystem, and noticed a number of bizarre things that
> probably should be fixed:
[--SNIP--]
> * There is a usr/arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabi directory, which contains
> just a 'bin' subdirectory, which contains ar, as, ld, nm, etc.
>
> $ ls usr/arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabi/bin/
> ar as ld ld.bfd nm objcopy objdump ranlib strip
>
> That's a strange installation location for binutils.
These should be hard-links to their fully-qualified counterparts in
/usr/bin:
arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabi-{ar,as,ld,ld,bfd,nm,objcopy,ranlib,strip}
That's typical of a binutils installation.
[--SNIP--]
> * There a bunch of libraries that don't have the executable bit set in
> usr/lib. I don't think it's a big problem, but it makes them
> different from the others.
Shared libraries do not need to be executable, except the dynamic linker
ld.so which is both a progrm and a library.
Also, libc.so from {,e}glibc is also executable, but not he libc.so from
uClibc.
I think it is not a problem per-se, and I think shared libraries should
not be executable at all.
> * Some packages seem to confuse /var with /usr/var: cups, netatalk,
> squid, polkit-1, vtund, stunnel. Here's what I have in usr/var/ :
[--SNIP--]
Two options here:
- ./configure --localstatedir=/var
Some packages do set it in their .mk, eg. (=/var unless specified):
avahi, sed, directfb, NM, lighttpd, dhcp (=/var/lib/dhcp),
php, oprofile, xserver_xorg-server, samba, dbus, collectd,
proftpd (=/var/run), sqlite, bind, dbus-glib, ndisc6, sql_net,
sqlcipher, connman, pulseaudio
Probably usefull to set it in the pkg-infra?
[--SNIP--]
> * usr/share represents 428 MB, which includes 121 MB of locales (I
> didn't select the removal of locales in my configuration)
Not a problem if locales where not /disabled/ in your config.
> If people are interested in fixing some of those issues, reply to this
> e-mail saying which issue you're going to have a look at.
I'll look at the /var issue.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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