From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 04/18] core: staging symlink uses a relative path when possible
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:47:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310214723.0eb96ec9@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457564339-27294-5-git-send-email-s.martin49@gmail.com>
Samuel,
On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 23:58:45 +0100, Samuel Martin wrote:
> This change turns the staging/ symlink to a relative one when
> $(STAGING_DIR) points to some location in the Buildroot's output
> directory (i.e.: in $(BASE_DIR)/).
>
> In any other case, the symlink target remains the absolute path
> to the sysroot location.
>
> This slight change is a step forward toward a relocatable SDK.
Why is this important for a relocatable SDK ? The SDK is $(HOST_DIR),
and the staging symlink is just a convenience symlink which sits
outside of $(HOST_DIR), and hence outside the SDK.
So why should we care?
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-10 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 22:58 [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 00/18] Relocatable SDK / build machine leaks Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 01/18] package/linux-headers: cleanup installation Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 23:09 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-12 8:46 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-22 22:10 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 02/18] core: use $(CURDIR) to set TOPDIR Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 23:10 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 23:51 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 20:45 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 22:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 03/18] core: re-enter make if $(CURDIR) or $(O) are not absolute canonical path Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 23:15 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-12 8:48 ` Samuel Martin
[not found] ` <CAFt09wNvtXGcfZ3PFZOgGu+bDvp6mEr44uwxa_ryjeP6DDQKBQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-03-21 1:45 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-21 5:21 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-21 11:40 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-22 3:03 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-22 5:55 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-22 11:10 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-22 22:07 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-22 23:11 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-23 0:54 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-23 1:36 ` Matthew Weber
2016-03-25 6:31 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-26 12:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-23 17:41 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 04/18] core: staging symlink uses a relative path when possible Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 23:20 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 20:47 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-03-12 9:11 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-12 13:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 05/18] core: make staging *-config scripts relocatable Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 23:24 ` Yann E. MORIN
2016-03-10 0:07 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-12 9:22 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 06/18] core: make host " Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 0:12 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-10 12:30 ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 20:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 07/18] package/pkgconf: make the pkg-config wrapper relocatable Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 20:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-10 21:33 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 08/18] support/scripts: add fix-rpath script + a bunch of helpers Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 09/18] core: add HOST_SANITIZE_RPATH_HOOK to TARGET_FINALIZE_HOOKS Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 10/18] core: add {TARGET, STAGING}_SANITIZE_RPATH_HOOK " Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 11/18] package/speex: remove no longer needed hook Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 12/18] toolchain: add post-install hooks making the toolchain relocatable Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 13/18] support/scripts: update check-host-rpath to use the shell helpers Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 14/18] support/scripts/check-host-rpath: silent find command Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 0:15 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 15/18] support/scripts/check-host-rpath: also check HOST_DIR/{bin, sbin} Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 0:16 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 16/18] support/scripts: add check-host-leaks script + all needed helpers Samuel Martin
2016-03-27 22:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 17/18] core: add check-leaks-in-{target, host, staging} targets Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 22:58 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v7 18/18] docs/manual: document how to debug shell script Samuel Martin
2016-03-10 0:21 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
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