[Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-autotools: explicitly use /usr/{bin, sbin, lib}, with merged usr

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Nov 5 13:25:02 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:52:29 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

> > Fortunalely that error is not fatal but other packages may do similar
> > things with bad results, so let's avoid possible problems.  
> 
>  Well, since the default for bindir is <exec_prefix>/bin and exec_prefix is
> /usr, for most packages this is not going to be an issue. It's only util-linux
> that overrides it.
> 
>  Therefore, I don't think this should be done globally, but specifically for
> util-linux.

I would also be more comfortable to do this just for util-linux, as
it's a bit easier to validate the impact/consequences of such a change
if it's limited to a single package.

Thomas
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