[Buildroot] [PATCH v7 01/18] package/linux-headers: cleanup installation

[Yann E. MORIN]

Samuel, All,

On 2016-03-12 09:46 +0100, Samuel Martin spake thusly:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr> wrote:
> > On 2016-03-09 23:58 +0100, Samuel Martin spake thusly:
> >> This patch removes unnecessary files generated during installation, that
> >> also are causing build machine paths leaking into the Buildroot's SDK.
> >>
> >> Note that similar cleanup commands can be found in other distributions
> >> (e.g. gentoo [1]); thought this is not a valid reason.
> >>
> >> [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-kernel/linux-headers/linux-headers-4.4.ebuild#n36
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Samuel Martin <s.martin49 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> changes v6->v7:
> >> - improve commit log
> >>
> >> changes v5->v6:
> >> - new patch
> >> ---
> >>  package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk b/package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk
> >> index 0900778..7633257 100644
> >> --- a/package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk
> >> +++ b/package/linux-headers/linux-headers.mk
> >> @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ define LINUX_HEADERS_INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS
> >>                       HOSTCXX="$(HOSTCXX)" \
> >>                       INSTALL_HDR_PATH=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
> >>                       headers_install)
> >> +     find $(STAGING_DIR)/usr \( -name .install -o -name ..install.cmd \) -delete
> >
> > I would further restrict that to $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include . not
> Well, I just reuse what is set for INSTALL_HDR_PATH, making any
> assumption on what the package's install rules do.

Well, this is only installing headers, so in $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include.

> > Also, Gentoo also has code to get rid of empty directories:
> >     find $(STAGING_DIR)/usr -depth -type d -delete 2>/dev/null
> In the Gentoo case, this is run on the package content, whereas in BR,
> this would remove all empty directories in the shared sysroot.
> So, why doing it for this package and not for the others?
> Also, if we want to do this, it would be in the global infra, not here ;-)
> 
> >
> > Although we don't really care about empty dirs in staging, TBH...
> Indeed.

Yep, I was just pointing this out, since you referenced Gentoo. ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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