[Buildroot] [PATCH] ncurses: remove BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_TARGET_{FORM, MENU, PANEL} options

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

Thomas, All,

On 2017-02-21 22:39 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> The ncurses sub-options BR2_PACKAGE_NCURSES_TARGET_{FORM,MENU,PANEL}
> are currently very badly broken: they only control whether the
> libform, libmenu and libpanel libraries are installed in
> $(TARGET_DIR), but do absolutely nothing about their installation in
> $(STAGING_DIR).
[--SNIP--]

Impressive xommit log. Great! :-)

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  package/ncurses/ncurses.mk   | 47 +++++++++++++-------------------------------
[--SNIP--]
> diff --git a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
> index 343909f..acf59da 100644
> --- a/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
> +++ b/package/ncurses/ncurses.mk
[--SNIP--]
> @@ -115,6 +110,7 @@ NCURSES_TERMINFO_FILES += \
>  
>  NCURSES_POST_INSTALL_STAGING_HOOKS += NCURSES_LINK_STAGING_LIBS
>  NCURSES_POST_INSTALL_STAGING_HOOKS += NCURSES_LINK_STAGING_PC
> +NCURSES_POST_INSTALL_TARGET_HOOKS += NCURSES_LINK_TARGET_LIBS

Would do you need to create the symlinks in target/ ?

When a program (or lib) is linked to a library, its DT_SONAME is used,
not the filename.

So if you have this chain of symlink, with the last element being an
actual file:

    libform.so -> libformw.so -> libformw.so.6 -> libformw.so.6.0

Then 'ld -lform' will in fact use the file libformw.so.6.0, extract its
DT_SONAME, and use that as a DT_NEEDED in the executable.

In this case, the DT_SONAME is libformw.so.6

Then at runtime, ld.so will use the DT_NEEDED name to find what library
to use, so in our case it will be looking for libformw.so.6, and will
never look for libform.so to start with.

So the w-suffixed symlinks in target are useless.

Ditto the syminks about the static libs: they are totally useless in
target/

Otherwise, tjis is a nice cleanup.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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