[Buildroot] [PATCH v16 1/4] package/libiberty: new package

[Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>]

Hi Adam, All,

On 2/7/20 3:38 AM, aduskett at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>
> 
> Some packages, like prelink-cross, want to use libiberty but do not bundle
> their own instance (which is good!).
> 
> However, libiberty is made for being bundled in packages: all GNU
> packages that use libiberty (gcc, Binutils, gdb, et al...) all have their own
> bundled variant. This common practice means that there is no official upstream
> for libiberty, the closest being as part of the combined Binutils-gdb tree.
> 
> So we introduce a new host-only package, that installs just libiberty from a
> Binutils released tarball.
> 
> Again, as packages usually bundle libiberty, it usually only installs a static
> version. Furthermore, it does not obey the usual --enable-shared and
> --disable-static flags; it only ever builds a static version.
> 
> Furthermore, -fPIC is not used with this library, but some packages may pick it
> to build shared objects. This behavior is the case for host-gdb, for example,
> which accidentally picks that library instead of its internal one.
> 
> So, rather than fix the various gdb versions and variants we can use, we ensure
> that the libiberty we install is usable in shared objects, and we always build
> before host-gdb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Duskett <Aduskett@gmail.com>

Tested-by: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>

> ---
> Changes v15 -> v16:
>    - Cleaned up the grammar in the commit message.
> 
> Changes v1 -> v15:
>    - Add this patch to the series
> 
>   DEVELOPERS                       |  1 +
>   package/libiberty/libiberty.hash |  2 ++
>   package/libiberty/libiberty.mk   | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 package/libiberty/libiberty.hash
>   create mode 100644 package/libiberty/libiberty.mk
> 
> diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
> index d8ea23e0b3..79ddddd9c3 100644
> --- a/DEVELOPERS
> +++ b/DEVELOPERS
> @@ -2552,6 +2552,7 @@ F:	package/keyutils/
>   F:	package/libbsd/
>   F:	package/libedit/
>   F:	package/libgsm/
> +F:	package/libiberty/
>   F:	package/libinput/
>   F:	package/libiscsi/
>   F:	package/libpri/
> diff --git a/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash b/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..270f38dfa7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/libiberty/libiberty.hash
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +# From ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/binutils/releases/sha512.sum
> +sha512  d326408f12a03d9a61a9de56584c2af12f81c2e50d2d7e835d51565df8314df01575724afa1e43bd0db45cfc9916b41519b67dfce03232aa4978704492a6994a  binutils-2.32.tar.xz
> diff --git a/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk b/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..17976fdd4f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/libiberty/libiberty.mk
> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +################################################################################
> +#
> +# libiberty
> +#
> +################################################################################
> +
> +LIBIBERTY_VERSION = 2.32
> +LIBIBERTY_SOURCE = binutils-$(LIBIBERTY_VERSION).tar.xz
> +LIBIBERTY_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/binutils
> +LIBIBERTY_DL_SUBDIR = binutils
> +LIBIBERTY_SUBDIR = libiberty
> +
> +# We explicitly disable multilib, as we do in binutils.
> +# By default, libiberty installs nothing, so we must force it.
> +HOST_LIBIBERTY_CONF_OPTS = \
> +	--disable-multilib \
> +	--enable-install-libiberty
> +
> +# Some packages (e.g. host-gdb) will pick this library and build shared
> +# objects with it. But libiberty does not honour the --enable-shared and
> +# --disable-static flags; it only ever builds a static library no matter
> +# what. So we must force -fPIC in build flags.
> +HOST_LIBIBERTY_CONF_ENV = \
> +	CFLAGS="$(HOST_CFLAGS) -fPIC" \
> +	LDFLAGS="$(HOST_LDFLAGS) -fPIC"
> +
> +$(eval $(host-autotools-package))
> 

-- 
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas