[Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/pkg-generic: ensure absolute paths in config-script fixups

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu Nov 29 22:00:53 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:44:04 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> In case a config script is called from a relative path, the $(dirnale
> $0) would return a relative path too.
> 
> Those paths are usually parts of includes or libraries search
> directories, and the packagfes buildsystems may chdir() anywhere, and
> thus the relative path will no longer be valid. For example:
> 
>   $ ./host/powerpc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/bin/net-snmp-config --cflags
>   [...] -I./host/powerpc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/bin/../../.././bin/../powerpc-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/libnl3 [...]
> 
> Canonicalise the path to be sure we use absolute paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  package/pkg-generic.mk | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied to next, thanks.

Thomas
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