[Buildroot] toolchain-external: ld.so* vs ld.so.*

[Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de_schampheleire@nokia.com>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 01:58:53PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 13:26:47 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote:
> 
> > I have a question on following commit:
> 
> You like the difficult questions, pointing out a tiny detail (just a
> dot!) in an old patch :-)

:-P

> 
> > The question is: did you intentionally remove the . before the final asterisk?
> > I.e. why is it not:
> > 
> > TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld*.so.*
> > 
> > as was the case before, even for the glibc+eabihf case?
> > I could not find a reference to why that specific change was made.
> > 
> > Background is that I now notice (after upgrading to 2018.02 coming from
> > 2017.02.x) that an extra file is copied on my target system: the system used to
> > have just '/lib/ld.so.1' which is also what is encoded in the ELF files as
> > dynamic loader, but now there is also '/lib/ld-2.20.so' which is not actually
> > used and is non-stripped (due to an exception in target-finalize).
> > This adds about 150K on the root filesystem, which is quite a lot for an unused
> > file.
> > 
> > So I wonder what would be wrong with following patch:
> > 
> > diff --git a/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk b/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
> > --- a/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
> > +++ b/toolchain/toolchain-external/pkg-toolchain-external.mk
> > @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ endif
> >  # Definitions of the list of libraries that should be copied to the target.
> >  #
> >  
> > -TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld*.so* libgcc_s.so.* libatomic.so.*
> > +TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += ld*.so.* libgcc_s.so.* libatomic.so.*
> >  
> >  ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_GLIBC)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_UCLIBC),y)
> >  TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_LIBS += libc.so.* libcrypt.so.* libdl.so.* libm.so.* libnsl.so.* libresolv.so.* librt.so.* libutil.so.*
> 
> I looked at the commit and its commit message, and I can't remember why
> ld*.so.* was changed to ld*.so*, so I'd say that your patch is probably
> correct.

Thanks, I'll let it run for a while on our system to see if any issue pops up,
and then I will contribute a patch.

> 
> Is there a way to improve our runtime tests to catch problems like
> this ?

I'm not really sure: we can of course add a hardcoded check for different
toolchains about which files are present or should not be present, but it would
not be a generic check to catch this type of issue.

/Thomas