From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Le Bihan Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:12:06 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Buildroot] Allowing user to run ldconfig in post-build script In-Reply-To: <1722059483.342813959.1466082436418.JavaMail.root@zimbra32-e6.priv.proxad.net> Message-ID: <1720572432.342833812.1466082726731.JavaMail.root@zimbra32-e6.priv.proxad.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi! Since commit 9c40723, handling of ldconfig in the main Makefile as been dropped, and if /etc/ld.so.conf is found in the target root filesystem, the build fails. Not being able to run ldconfig and generate the ld.so cache has two drawbacks: - it prevents the user from installing some libraries in other locations than /lib and /usr/lib (e.g. /opt/foo/lib). This can be solved with symlinks, though. - when running a program, ld.so has to explore all the library paths to find the correct location of the required libraries. This results in zillions of failed calls to open(), i.e. wasted time. So, it would be better to add an entry in the system configuration menu so that the user can explicitly disable the sanity check introduced by 9c40723. Hence he/she will be able to run the cross-compiled version of ldconfig (found in ${STAGING_DIR}/sbin/ldconfig) via the version of QEMU matching the target. Attached are: - a patch to add the aforementioned configuration entry, named BR2_TARGET_LDCONFIG. - an example of post-build script to run ldconfig via QEMU. However, instead of using a post-build script, the operations could be performed in a Buildroot Makefile. Which one should be updated? The main Makefile or the Makefile of the skeleton package? In any cases, a dependency to host-qemu will be introduced. Regards, -- ELB -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-system-allow-running-ldconfig.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 1665 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: post-build.sh Type: application/x-shellscript Size: 1185 bytes Desc: not available URL: