[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf@atmel.com>]

You should not write to /etc.
You should write to the project_build_dir/<project>/root/etc


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hamish Moffatt" <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: "Ulf Samuelsson" <ulf@atmel.com>
Cc: <buildroot@uclibc.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package


> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:04:18PM +0100, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:29:06AM -0800, ulf at uclibc.org wrote:
>> >> Log:
>> >> Use host ldconfig, if external toolchain is used
>> >> 
>> >> +ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL),y)
>> >> +TARGET_LDCONFIG=/sbin/ldconfig
>> >> +else
>> >>  TARGET_LDCONFIG=$(TARGET_CROSS)ldconfig
>> >> +endif
>> > 
>> > How can that be right? What does it fix?
>> 
>> You may be right, it may need more complex logic.
>> Is testing CodeSourcery tools, which does not provide ldconfig.
>> Running /sbin/ldconfig seems to allow the build to complete.
> 
> On my system, /sbin/ldconfig fails if run as a non-root user (can't
> create temporary file /etc/ld.so.cache~).
> 
> Maybe the logic could detect if $(TARGET_CROSS)ldconfig exists and if
> not, set TARGET_LDCONFIG=/bin/true? (I don't think there is any need to
> ever run /sbin/ldconfig, because the host's ld.so.cache doesn't need
> updating.)
> 
> ifeq ($(shell which $(TARGET_CROSS)ldconfig),)
> TARGET_LDCONFIG=/bin/true
> else
> TARGET_LDCONFIG=$(TARGET_CROSS)ldconfig
> endif
> 
> ... appears to work here. "type" or "whence" or "command -v" might be
> more portable than which, I'm not sure. I don't see any way to do it
> without $(shell ..) though.
> 
> 
> cheers
> Hamish
> -- 
> Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
>