From 49648d4b01e8056c294001e80bf4bd487593a5a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 23:58:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] toolchain/helper: don't follow symlinks when copying libs to target In 2a87b64 (toolchain-external: align library locations in target and staging dir), copying the libraries from the sysroot to the target was changed to a simple find-based solution. To be sure that the staging directory was entered to find the libraries, in case the variable was pointing to a symlink, the -L clause to find was used. However, that causes extraneous libraries to be copied over. For example, a ct-ng toolchain would have this sysroot (e.g for an arm 32-bit toolchain): .../sysroot/lib/ .../sysroot/lib32 -> lib .../sysroot/lib64 -> lib .../sysroot/usr/lib/ .../sysroot/usr/lib32 -> lib .../sysroot/usr/lib64 -> lib Which we would carry as-is to our own sysroot. But then, in target, our skeleton creates the /lib/ and /usr/lib directories, with the necessary lib32 or lib64 symlink pointing to it. In this case, a lib32->lib symlink is created, but no lib64 symlink since this is a 32-bit architecture. To copy the required libraries from staging into target, we scan the staging directory for all occurences of the required libraries, and copy them over to target, keeping the same directory layout relative to the sysroot. For example: .../sysroot/usr/lib/libfoo.so --> .../target/usr/lib/libfoo.so .../sysroot/usr/lib32/libbar.so --> .../target/usr/lib32/libbar.so .../sysroot/usr/lib64/libbuz.so --> .../target/usr/lib64/libbuz.so So, when we copy over the libraries from our staging to the target directory, the "find -L .../sysroot -name libblabla.so.*" would find multiple instances of libblabla, each in the /usr/lib /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64 locations (they are all the exact same file, though). Since we do have the /usr/lib32->lib symlink, all is OK (but there are two copies going on, which could be avoided). However, since we do not have the /usr/lib64->lib symlink, the /usr/lib64/ directory is created. This was very difficult to observe, as no /lib64/ directory is created, only the /usr/lib64/ one was. To top it off, this only happens with a merged /usr, which does not seem like not a common case without systemd. Since the reason to use -L was to be sure to enter our staging directory, we just need to ensure that the path ends up with a slash, as was already talked about in this thread: http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2016-April/159737.html After further discussion, it turns out that the original patch came along because of the confusion between output/staging (which is a symlink) and $(STAGING_DIR) which expands to output/host/usr//sysroot (which is never a symlink), so the symlink handling isn't really needed at all. [Peter: drop description comment, extend description] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" Cc: Thomas Petazzoni Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire Cc: Peter Korsgaard Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- toolchain/helpers.mk | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/toolchain/helpers.mk b/toolchain/helpers.mk index 551275967f..b3510b6e0b 100644 --- a/toolchain/helpers.mk +++ b/toolchain/helpers.mk @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ copy_toolchain_lib_root = \ LIB="$(strip $1)"; \ \ - LIBPATHS=`find -L $(STAGING_DIR) -name "$${LIB}" 2>/dev/null` ; \ + LIBPATHS=`find $(STAGING_DIR)/ -name "$${LIB}" 2>/dev/null` ; \ for LIBPATH in $${LIBPATHS} ; do \ DESTDIR=`echo $${LIBPATH} | sed "s,^$(STAGING_DIR)/,," | xargs dirname` ; \ mkdir -p $(TARGET_DIR)/$${DESTDIR}; \ -- 2.30.2