[Buildroot] [PATCH] binutils: replace hard-links with soft-links to fix rpath
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun May 6 21:29:17 UTC 2018
Thomas, All,
On 2018-05-06 22:26 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 06 May 2018 22:18:05 +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> > > binutils installs its binaries both as bin/<tuple>-<tool> and as
> > > <tuple>/bin/<tool>, and hardlinks are used to reduce disk space
> > > consumption. This causes a problem for host-binutils with our rpath
> > > fixing logic done by "make sdk".
> >
> > > Indeed, the fix-rpath script starts by fixing up the rpath of
> > > bin/<tuple>-<tool>, and sets the RPATH to $ORIGIN/../lib/. Then
> > > fix-rpath moves on to <tuple>/bin/<tool>, and doesn't find the library
> > > the tool depends on, and clears the RPATH. The result is that the
> > > binutils tool are not usable.
> >
> > > Note that this is only visible currently on the ARC architecture,
> > > because on this architecture, binutils is fetched from git, which
> > > causes host-flex to be built, and some binutils tools to use the libfl
> > > shared library. Therefore, the binutils tools don't use just the
> > > standard C library (which is provided by the system) but also libfl
> > > from $(HOST_DIR)/lib, and therefore if the RPATH isn't set correctly,
> > > those tools don't work properly.
> >
> > > In order to address this, this comit adds a post-install hook to
> > > host-binutils that replaces those hard links by symbolic links. It is
> > > worth mentioning that library loading and RPATH usage occurs *after*
> > > resolving the symbolic links, which makes this solution work.
> >
> > > Fixes:
> >
> > > http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b2562b05d397d4e1ffe0f8d2f4ce4c84ab6feae1/
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> >
> > Committed, thanks.
>
> Hum, I think Yann had some second thoughts about this patch. He was not
> able to reproduce the binutils tools being linked to libfl, and it also
> isn't clear why they get linked to libfl in the first place.
>
> So, the problem is real, this patch works around it, but there's still
> a bit of mystery.
Yes, but since you had the problem, and the fix "makes sense", it's OK
Today, only binutils is affected, and I don't expect that a lot of
packages will have the same issue, so this binutils-specific fix is
also enough.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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