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From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: make wrapper relocatable
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 15:31:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871t7j205g.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56E02D83.9020402@zacarias.com.ar> (Gustavo Zacarias's message of "Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:04:51 -0300")

>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> writes:

 > On 09/03/16 11:00, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
 >> Well, we cannot really break existing features to add new ones. The
 >> relative location between the pkg-config wrapper script and the staging
 >> directory is constant (or rather known at build time), so I guess we can
 >> do something with /proc/self/exe. We might need to implement the wrapper
 >> in C instead for that to work as /proc/self/exe for a shell script seems
 >> to return /bin/dash here.

 > That's overly complicated for no value at all.
 > You know the sysroot is in the host directory as well, so you just
 > need to filter out /usr/bin from $0 and hardcode the tuple in the
 > wrapper - 
 > that's guaranteed to not change, otherwise you're in serious trouble.

Yes, that's basically what I'm saying +/- the question if you want to
rely on $0 containing the full path to the wrapper or if you use
/proc/self/exe instead.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-09 13:16 [Buildroot] [PATCH] pkgconf: make wrapper relocatable Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 13:46 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 13:51   ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 14:00     ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 14:04       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 14:31         ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2016-03-09 14:37           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 14:40             ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 14:46             ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 14:52               ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 15:06                 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 14:03     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-09 14:28       ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 14:40         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 14:41           ` Gustavo Zacarias
2016-03-09 14:42           ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2016-03-09 14:30       ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 14:50         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-03-09 14:55           ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-03-09 15:22       ` Samuel Martin
2016-03-09 15:55         ` Peter Korsgaard

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