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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 19:14 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On 3/30/2011 7:47 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Poky has had a ldconfig-native recipe in for a while. Back in the times
> > our RPATHS were totally broken adding in an ld.so.cache was useful. In
> > modern times I'm having trouble working out when this would be useful on
> > a standard system as libraries are pretty much always in one of the two
> > default search locations.
> >
> > ldconfig-native is 32/64 bit safe. I've just been looking at PPC and it
> > is certainly not endian safe though. The endianess of the target system
> > need to match that of the build system for it to work. It wouldn't be
> > much work to make it endian safe though although the codebase will
> > diverge further from that in (e)glibc though.
> >
> 
> FWIW it does not work with uclibc as well. So it should be disabled for 
> uclibc for all arches

I've queued a patch to do this.

Cheers,

Richard