[Buildroot] [PATH 0/1] package/ncurses: disable use of the GPM library

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On Wednesday 14 September 2011 12:06:40, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2011 09:21:05 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Le Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:05:16 +0200,
> > 
> > "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> a ?crit :
> > > That host-ldd is then installed as $(HOST_DIR)/usr/bin/ldd, which is
> > > first in the PATH.
> > 
> > When you build uClibc for ARM, uClibc installs an host-ldd ?
> 
> Well, this time it was for MIPS.
> 
> > Why is this ldd necessary ?
> 
> Probably not `necessay' for buildroot, but this host-ldd tries to be the
> Holy Grail of cross-compilation: an ldd that can interpret the target
> ELF files, and behaves the same as if it was run on the target.

 It should then be called <arch-tuple>-ldd, like the crosstool-ng one, right?

[snip]
> But you're right. The proper way to fix this is to decide whether that
> host-ldd is usefull or not.

 It's useful in the same way that cross-gdb is useful.

 However, there sure is something broken about it: it should use the staging 
directory as sysroot, not /.  This would also fix the ncurses case.  
(Actually, also the cross-gdb could benefit from this; now you always have to 
do a 'set solib-absolute-prefix ...' for remote debugging.)


 Regards,
 Arnout

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