[Buildroot] [PATCH] elf2flt: add patch to fix ld.real search logic

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 13-08-17 23:32, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> elf2flt contains a program called ld-elf2flt, which gets installed as
> a replacement for ld, with ld renamed to ld.real. This program
> therefore calls ld.real internally.
> 
> The logic to find ld.real worked fine for:
> 
>  - bin/TARGET_ALIAS-ld
>  - TARGET_ALIAS/bin/ld
> 
> However, it failed badly if bin/SIMPLER_TARGET_ALIAS-ld is used, as
> symlink to bin/TARGET_ALIAS-ld. For example:
> 
> $ ./output/host/bin/arm-buildroot-uclinux-uclibcgnueabi-ld
> /home/thomas/buildroot/buildroot/output/host/bin/../arm-buildroot-uclinux-uclibcgnueabi/bin/ld.real: no input files
> 
> $ ./output/host/bin/arm-linux-ld
> arm-linux-ld (ld-elf2flt): error trying to exec '/home/thomas/buildroot/buildroot/output/host/bin/ld.real': execvp: No such file or directory
> 
> $ ./output/host/arm-buildroot-uclinux-uclibcgnueabi/bin/ld
> /home/thomas/buildroot/buildroot/output/host/arm-buildroot-uclinux-uclibcgnueabi/bin/ld.real: no input files
> 
> This commit fixes that by adding a patch that adjusts the ld-elf2flt
> logic to properly cope with this situation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

 Nice catch! I hoped that upstream would have given some feedback already, but
alas...

 Applied to master, thanks.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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