[Buildroot] [PATCH] autotools-package: also handle pre-installed external toolchain in .la fixup

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Arnout, All,

On 2015-05-03 11:43 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 03/05/15 00:34, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On 2015-05-02 23:50 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) spake thusly:
> >> The .la fixup handling looks for paths starting with /usr and assumes
> >> that they are missing the installation prefix (i.e. $(STAGING_DIR)). It
> >> already handles the cases that $(STAGING_DIR) itself and $(BASE_DIR)
> >> are under /usr, but it does not yet handle the case that a
> >> pre-installed external toolchain is under /usr (and tracks that fact
> >> in some .la file). For instance, if you use buildroot to generate a
> >> toolchain with HOST_DIR=/usr/local/some_path, this problem will occur.
> >>
> >> Fix this in the same way as $(STAGING_DIR) and $(BASE_DIR), but in
> >> addition check that TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_INSTALL_DIR is non-empty. For
> >> internal toolchains, it is empty and the sed expression would fail.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> >> Reported-by: Carlos Soto <csotoalonso@gmail.com>
> >> Cc: Carlos Soto <csotoalonso@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> > 
> > I however wonder: shouldn't we do that .la munging in a hook that we
> > forcibly add to the list of post-staging-install hooks, so that it is
> > run even for those packages that redefine their _INSTALL_STAGING_CMDS ?
> 
>  I had the same thought... Even more: it is not really tied to autotools-package
> because generic packages may also use libtool, so it could go directly into the
> .stamp_staging_installed code.

Agreed. Shall I do it, or do you already have something on your side?

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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