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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: lconfig-native is not endian safe
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:43:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D934FBC.40802@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301496447.24596.100.camel@rex>

On 3/30/11 9:47 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Poky has had a ldconfig-native recipe in for a while. Back in the times
> our RPATHS were totally broken adding in an ld.so.cache was useful. In
> modern times I'm having trouble working out when this would be useful on
> a standard system as libraries are pretty much always in one of the two
> default search locations.
> 
> ldconfig-native is 32/64 bit safe. I've just been looking at PPC and it
> is certainly not endian safe though. The endianess of the target system
> need to match that of the build system for it to work. It wouldn't be
> much work to make it endian safe though although the codebase will
> diverge further from that in (e)glibc though.
> 
> Short term we need to disable it at least for ppc, longer term what
> should we do?

On ARM, are the structures packed in the same way as the target system?

I know I prefer to NOT use ldconfig in the systems I design, but I understand
why people want it.

I suggest we disable it on PPC for now, and work on updating endian support,
(packing if necessary) and make sure that it supports the latest ldconfig
features of being able to use referenced directories and such.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-30 14:47 lconfig-native is not endian safe Richard Purdie
2011-03-30 15:43 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2011-03-31  1:59   ` Kamble, Nitin A
2011-03-31  2:02     ` Kamble, Nitin A
2011-03-31  2:09       ` Kamble, Nitin A
2011-03-31  9:02         ` Hatle, Mark
2011-03-31 10:40           ` Richard Purdie
2011-03-31 17:27             ` ldconfig-native " Kamble, Nitin A
2011-04-05  2:15         ` lconfig-native " Khem Raj

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