Re: [PATCH] eglibc-initial: Ensure symlinks point to the correct location when built from sstate cache

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 13:30 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:26:04PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > If the sstate files are installed into a sysroot from the sstate cache,
> > the directory to the main sysroot can change and the symlinks aren't
> > adjusted to account for this. This is a problem specific to the toolchain
> > bootstrap process. This patch adds up a function to recreate the
> > symlinks, hence ensuring they always point at the correct location.
> 
> Similar issue is IMHO in python and apr (and probably more)
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2011-November/012149.html

Its similar but not that similar. The toolchain sysroots are special in
that the bootstrap one needs to refer to the non-bootstrap one via
symlinks.

The path references you mention above should be detected by the sstate
relocation code and fixed up automatically. It sounds like the search
and replace expressions we're using aren't catching every reference we
need to which is a different problem.

Cheers,

Richard