[Buildroot] [PATCH] target-finalize: Also copy .so files if BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES is enabled

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On Thursday 01 March 2012 07:48:31 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> So maybe all packages should always install the .so file (be it a
> symbolic link or the libc.so linker script), and then:
> 
>  * When BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES is not set, we get rid of those .so symbolic
>    links
> 
>  * When BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES is set, we keep them
> 
> That's just a proposal here, other options would be fine with me as
> well. It's just that the fact most packages already install the .so
> symlink and we re-do it in target-finalize when BR2_HAVE_DEVFILES is
> set looks confusing.

 Removing the .so symlinks seems a bit too much work and too much risk for 
what it is bringing.

 It wouldn't be a bad idea though to only copy over files if they don't 
exist yet.  However, I considered that not to be worth the effort.  Even
if you have 1000 shared libraries installed, overwriting those symlinks
will take you less than a second - in any case much less than the equally
redundant copying of the corresponding .a archives :-)

 In fact, since we're starting to use rsync more and more, we could rely
on its filtering rules to select the .a, .la and .so files for us.

 I would whip up a patch, but I'm too tired now :-)

 Regards,
 Arnout

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