Re: [PATCH 0/6] relocatable SDK

From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] relocatable SDK
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 08:06:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50152759.4080202@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5012D864.1090208@linux.intel.com>

On 07/27/2012 02:05 PM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 04:21 AM, Laurentiu Palcu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patchset adds relocatable SDK functionality. Instead of a
>> tarball, the
>> output of "bitbake meta-toolchain/meta-toolchain-sdk" will be a self
>> extracting
>> archive.
>>
>> The user will then execute the .sh script and give it the target
>> directory for SDK installation (default is /opt/poky). The installer

For oe-core the default should be something like /opt/oe-core, not 
/opt/some-distro.

Philip

>> will then
>> extract the embedded tarball to the user provided location and will
>> set up the
>> SDK: change the paths in the environment script, change the dynamic
>> loader path
>> in all binaries and, also, change the ls.so.cache path in the dynamic
>> loader
>> itself, together with the SYSDIR paths/lengths.
>>
>> With that, no more root privileges are needed in order to install the
>> SDK.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laurentiu
>>
>> The following changes since commit
>> 651b223c5fc93c7504e304e954b9ae4640ed47c6:
>>
>>    usbutils: avoid dependency on bash (2012-07-26 18:52:00 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib lpalcu/relocatable_sdk
>>
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=lpalcu/relocatable_sdk
>>
>>
>> Laurentiu Palcu (6):
>>    eglibc: relocatable SDK changes
>>    binutils: relocatable SDK: change PT_INTERP section size
>>    scripts: add script for relocating the SDK
>>    populate_sdk_base.bbclass: create self-extracting archive
>>    relocatable.bbclass: split it up, to reuse code
>>    package.bbclass: change RPATHs for nativesdk packages
>>
>>   meta/classes/chrpath.bbclass                       |   89 +++++++++
>>   meta/classes/package.bbclass                       |    5 +
>>   meta/classes/populate_sdk_base.bbclass             |   82 ++++++++
>>   meta/classes/relocatable.bbclass                   |   91 +--------
>>   .../eglibc/eglibc-2.15/relocatable_sdk.patch       |   70 +++++++
>>   meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.15.bb            |    6 +-
>>   .../binutils/binutils-crosssdk_2.22.bb             |    5 +
>>   .../binutils/binutils/relocatable_sdk.patch        |   13 ++
>>   scripts/relocate_sdk.py                            |  200
>> ++++++++++++++++++++
>>   9 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 meta/classes/chrpath.bbclass
>>   create mode 100644
>> meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-2.15/relocatable_sdk.patch
>>   create mode 100644
>> meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils/relocatable_sdk.patch
>>   create mode 100755 scripts/relocate_sdk.py
>>
> Your patches need to have Upstream-Status and Signed-off-by: added along
> with a header explaining why the patch is needed.
>
> Just a quick first pass review, there may be more comments as I review
> deeper.
>
> Sau!
>
>
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