From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:43:28 +0000 (+0100) Subject: support/scripts/check-host-rpath: document existing functions X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b1e294cc15e42929b87c2ac184d368df66a701d1;p=buildroot.git support/scripts/check-host-rpath: document existing functions As suggested by Arnout Vandecappelle, let's document the elf_needs_rpath() and check_elf_has_rpath() functions, before we make them a bit more complicated with per-package directory support. Suggested-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- diff --git a/support/scripts/check-host-rpath b/support/scripts/check-host-rpath index 6c5767da05..c8939569e2 100755 --- a/support/scripts/check-host-rpath +++ b/support/scripts/check-host-rpath @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ is_elf() { |grep -E 'Requesting program interpreter:' >/dev/null 2>&1 } +# This function tells whether a given ELF executable (first argument) +# needs a RPATH pointing to the host library directory or not. It +# needs such an RPATH if at least of the libraries used by the ELF +# executable is available in the host library directory. This function +# returns 0 when a RPATH is needed, 1 otherwise. elf_needs_rpath() { local file="${1}" local hostdir="${2}" @@ -54,6 +59,13 @@ elf_needs_rpath() { return 1 } +# This function checks whether at least one of the RPATH of the given +# ELF executable (first argument) properly points to the host library +# directory (second argument), either through an absolute RPATH or a +# relative RPATH. Having such a RPATH will make sure the ELF +# executable will find at runtime the shared libraries it depends +# on. This function returns 0 when a proper RPATH was found, or 1 +# otherwise. check_elf_has_rpath() { local file="${1}" local hostdir="${2}"