[Buildroot] Relocatable internal toolchain

[Wolfgang Grandegger]

Hi Samuel,

Am 26.01.2017 um 11:47 schrieb Samuel Martin:
> Hi Wolfgang, all,
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Wolfgang Grandegger <wg at grandegger.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I prefer a relocatable (internal) toolchain and before digging deeper... Are
>> there any plans in that direction? I realized some attempts (patches) to
>> make the buildroot toolchain relocatable but they have not (yet) been
>> accepted. What are the pros and cons? Are there principle problems?
>
> Yes, there are plans for this.

Great!

> There had been a couple of the series posted on this topic (the latest one [1]).
> And we talked about this during the last Buildroot Meeting, you can
> check the report [2] for detailed conclusions.
> To sum-up:
> - Producing the relocatable host tools will be addressed step-by-step;
> - Preparatory changes making buildroot using absolute canonical paths
> are already merged [4];
> - Next step: fixing RPATH in host tools binaries thanks to some
> patchelf [3] features to be implemented and upstreamed (this should be
> enough to meet Buildroot needs);
> - Cleaning up RPATH in target binaries is delayed.
>
> Unfortunately, I got no freetime to spend on patchelf source code
> [3] since the meeting.

Thanks for the quick introduction...

> If you are interested in or want to take over this topic, don't
> hesitate to drop a message on the Buildroot mailing list.

I will have a closer look. Let's see if I can do something.

Wolfgang.