From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-autotools: explicitly use /usr/{bin, sbin, lib}, with merged usr
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 14:25:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171105142502.0e6ef572@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14c66d15-281b-8701-697c-d869581c8706@mind.be>
Hello,
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 13:52:29 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > Fortunalely that error is not fatal but other packages may do similar
> > things with bad results, so let's avoid possible problems.
>
> Well, since the default for bindir is <exec_prefix>/bin and exec_prefix is
> /usr, for most packages this is not going to be an issue. It's only util-linux
> that overrides it.
>
> Therefore, I don't think this should be done globally, but specifically for
> util-linux.
I would also be more comfortable to do this just for util-linux, as
it's a bit easier to validate the impact/consequences of such a change
if it's limited to a single package.
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-05 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-01 3:36 [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkg-autotools: explicitly use /usr/{bin, sbin, lib}, with merged usr Carlos Santos
2017-11-05 12:52 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2017-11-05 13:25 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2017-11-08 23:42 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] util-linux: " Carlos Santos
2017-11-09 0:05 ` Carlos Santos
2017-11-22 21:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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