[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] package/skeleton: also handle merged /usr in the staging

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

Arnout, All,

On 2015-11-27 23:34 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 26-11-15 23:13, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > When the target uses a merged /usr setup, gdbserver will only report
> > paths in /lib to the remote gdb, which in turn will only look libraries
> > in staging/lib and never in staging/usr/lib.
> > 
> > So. the mreged (or non-merged) /usr setup must be replicated in the
> > staging.
> > 
> > The best solution where to do so is in the skeleton package, since it
> > is guaranteed to come before any package that installs things in the
> > staging, and even before the (internal or external) toolchain as well.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Pieterjan Camerlynck <pieterjan.camerlynck@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> > Cc: Pieterjan Camerlynck <pieterjan.camerlynck@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
> 
>  However, this only applies to next - shouldn't we do this on master as well?
> This will be the first time we release the merged /usr, so we should probably
> get it right...

Hmmm... Surely this patch was done against master, not next. Or did I
foobared my tree?... ;-)

Yes, I'd like we get that in master, but I'd like some testing first (of
course, I did my homework, but a note from the reporter would have been
great, too).

>  Perhaps this would be a good time to move this to the
> SKELETON_USR_SYMLINKS_OR_DIRS macro and remove these directories from the skeleton.

*That* would be for next. Or after the release, since it's so close...

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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