Fix installation location of libffi#448
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The libffi is currently declared as toolexeclib_LTLIBRARIES. In many
cases, toolexeclib libraries will be installed in /usr/lib, so it
doesn't make any difference.
However, with multilib toolchains, they get installed in a
subdirectory of /usr/lib/. For example, with a Sourcery CodeBench
PowerPC toolchain, if the e500mc multilib variant is used, the libffi
library gets installed in /usr/lib/te500mc/. This is due to the
following code in the configure script:
multi_os_directory=`$CC -print-multi-os-directory`
case $multi_os_directory in
.) ;; # Avoid trailing /.
*) toolexeclibdir=$toolexeclibdir/$multi_os_directory ;;
esac
Once the library is installed in /usr/lib/te500mc/, nothing works
because this installation location is inconsistent with the
installation location declared in libffi.pc.
So, instead of using this bizarre toolexeclib_LTLIBRARIES, simply use
the more standard lib_LTLIBRARIES, which ensures that the libffi
library is always installed in /usr/lib.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
[unfuzz for 3.2.1]
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
[Patch retrieved from:
https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/libffi/0001-Fix-installation-location-of-libffi.patch]
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
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Was this patch ignored because of the CI failures? |
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Ping, can this please be merged? |
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Wouldn't it be better to update libffi.pc? |
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IMHO, as explained in the commit log, installing a library in |
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We also include this patch, it would be nice to have it included in upstream. |
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The libffi is currently declared as toolexeclib_LTLIBRARIES. In many
cases, toolexeclib libraries will be installed in /usr/lib, so it
doesn't make any difference.
However, with multilib toolchains, they get installed in a
subdirectory of /usr/lib/. For example, with a Sourcery CodeBench
PowerPC toolchain, if the e500mc multilib variant is used, the libffi
library gets installed in /usr/lib/te500mc/. This is due to the
following code in the configure script:
Once the library is installed in /usr/lib/te500mc/, nothing works
because this installation location is inconsistent with the
installation location declared in libffi.pc.
So, instead of using this bizarre toolexeclib_LTLIBRARIES, simply use
the more standard lib_LTLIBRARIES, which ensures that the libffi
library is always installed in /usr/lib.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com
[unfuzz for 3.2.1]
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause joerg.krause@embedded.rocks
[Patch retrieved from:
https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/libffi/0001-Fix-installation-location-of-libffi.patch]
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com