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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
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Subject: Re: meta-toolchain doesn't compile working binaries
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On 5/6/14, 4:44 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 04:25:15PM -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 5/6/14, 3:56 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis@denix.org> wrote:
>>>> Do you know that OE toolchain is not relocatable?
>>>
>>> is that true ?
>>>
>>
>> It's the load path of the executables, they use the libc-nativesdk,
>> so they need a hard path to the correct ld.so to get started.
>
> More specifically, it's PT_INTERP section of the ELF header in every binary
> that hardcodes the full path to our own dynamic linker/loader (i.e. mentioned
> libc-nativesdk). I wish it would support the use of $ORIGIN similar to RPATH
> and RUNPATH for libraries, but I bet there are all kinds of corner cases with
> that... :)
>

$ORIGIN, RPATH and RUNPATH are all implemented by the ld.so, there is no way to 
dynamically assign the interpreter (ld.so).

--Mark