Re: libtool-cross patch thread : follow up on do_install...

[Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:07:17AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Mike Williamson
> <michael.williamson@criticallink.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was investigating a build issue using a local recipe inheriting autotools
> > employing libtool (a compile of unixodbc, needed by the new php recipe)
> > and ran into an issue that appears to be solved by modifying the
> > do_install() method of libtool-cross according to comments made
> > in this patch thread:
> >
> > http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/15065/
> >
> > Basically, replace the do_install with "oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install"
> > suggested by Khem Raj.   Mike Crowe seemed to think that it cleaned
> > up issues he was having, but the thread seems to die at that point.
> >
> > The current recipe for libtool-cross does not reflect the modification
> > mentioned, so I am wondering if this is not appropriate?
> > Am I doing more harm than good?
> 
> Mike Crowe did not report back so if he saw no issues we should have this patch
> in with required alteration.

I did have some success but I ended up with various other problems
that I never got to the bottom of. I kept hoping I'd be able to
investigate further and solve the remaining problems but that has
turned out not to be the case. :(

I did find that I had to add back the parts from Richard's original
patch that installed stuff in ${bindir_crossscripts}.

But after that it seems that my variables are a mixture of full paths
and relative paths which causes problems when I run make install
whether I use ${MAKE} or oe_runmake and whether I specify DESTDIR or
not.

For example, during do_configure_prepend I have the following:

STAGING_DATADIR=/home/mac/src/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/panther/home/mac/src/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/panther/usr/share
STAGING_DIR=/home/mac/src/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots
datadir=/home/mac/src/oe/build/tmp-eglibc/sysroots/panther/usr/share
target_datadir=/usr/share
libdir=/lib

datadir makes its way into libtool's Makefile so I end up
with the /home/mac/... directories in my image. :(

I tried various things to fix the problem (mainly not making datadir
absolute) but I never got anything that completely worked from
clean. I think some of the remaining problems were due to me using
meta-micro's no /usr though.

I hope this is useful and I'm sorry it's not more so.

Thanks.

Mike.