From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PzY9L-0000Ay-Dy for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:35:15 +0100 Received: from svr-orw-exc-10.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.58]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1PzY7g-0006tr-Ay from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:33:32 -0700 Received: from SVR-ORW-FEM-05.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.97.43]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-10.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:33:16 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.14] (147.34.91.1) by svr-orw-fem-05 (147.34.97.43) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.270.1; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:33:31 -0700 Message-ID: <4D7FA2DB.1010605@mentor.com> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:33:15 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <1299135167-18330-1-git-send-email-raj.khem@gmail.com> <1299135167-18330-4-git-send-email-raj.khem@gmail.com> <1299610396.602.104.camel@rex> <1299934200.1445.3023.camel@rex> <4D7E473E.6010800@mentor.com> <1300132473.30423.496.camel@rex> In-Reply-To: <1300132473.30423.496.camel@rex> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Mar 2011 17:33:16.0271 (UTC) FILETIME=[11462FF0:01CBE337] Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 3/6] gcc: Statically link in support libraries e.g. libmpfr libgmp etc. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:35:15 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/14/2011 12:54 PM, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:50 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: >> On 03/12/2011 05:50 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 11:04 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Richard Purdie >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:38 -0800, Khem Raj wrote: >>>>>> ping any opinion on this patch ? >>>>> >>>>> This change looks rather hacky and I'd really like to understand more >>>>> about why this is needed and whether there is a better way we could >>>>> ensure the right flags get passed around. Can you provide more details >>>>> about whats going on with this. Obviously this change as it stands isn't >>>>> acceptable to upstream gcc and I'd like to see if we could find one that >>>>> was. >>>> >>>> this is because the supporting libraries like mpc mpfr that are needed >>>> by gcc itself to run >>>> we might have different versions of these libraries. So depending upon >>>> shared objects >>>> would mean we need to find same shared objects where say the SDK is installed >>>> so either we ship the whole baggage or we link it in statically. This >>>> patch makes those libs to >>>> linked in statically and cross gcc wont have dependencies on these >>>> libs anymore so >>>> it can run on all hosts pretty much. >>> >>> If you look at the way the SDK toolchain works in Poky, it automatically >>> ships the versions of these libraries that it needs so we don't actually >>> have this problem. >>> >>> Also, looking at the patch again, was the first LDFLAGS change meant to >>> be in there, is that related or different to the shared/static >>> mpfr/mpc/gmp issue? >> >> I think it's time for someone to build one at dig at it, but are you >> sure they're used and shipped and not just used? That was a problem >> before and unless the exported bits are using a relative $ORIGIN in the >> link path (or we've broken relocatability, which would be another >> problem) there's problems today. > > They are used and shipped. As evidence I submit: > > http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/nightly/20110311-1/toolchain/x86_64/poky-lsb-eglibc-x86_64-i586-toolchain-gmae-0.9+snapshot-20110313.tar.bz2 Is /opt/poky-lsb/0.9+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/i586-poky-linux/i586-poky-linux-gcc the runs on host targets the target cross compiler the user should use now? If so, you don't have relocation as the RPATH is hard-coded not $ORIGIN based. If not, can I have a pointer to the right gcc to poke at? Thanks :) -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation