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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 16:54:55 -0500
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Absolute symlink breaks cross compilation
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 11:27:43AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:15 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 02:24:49AM +0300, Андрей Аладьев wrote:
> > > Hello. Gentoo users find that it is not possible to cross compile musl. See
> > > here https://bugs.gentoo.org/645626 more details.
> > >
> > > I am sending to you proposed patch that is related to upstream. Please keep
> > > all installed symlinks relative. Thank you.
> >
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > index bd8f5c38..81bf33d5 100644
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ $(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/%: $(srcdir)/include/%
> > > $(INSTALL) -D -m 644 $< $@
> > >
> > > $(DESTDIR)$(LDSO_PATHNAME): $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libc.so
> > > - $(INSTALL) -D -l $(libdir)/libc.so $@ || true
> > > + $(INSTALL) -D -l $$(realpath --no-symlinks --relative-to=$$(dirname $@) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libc.so) $@ || true
> > >
> > > install-libs: $(ALL_LIBS:lib/%=$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/%) $(if $(SHARED_LIBS),$(DESTDIR)$(LDSO_PATHNAME),)
> > >
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean by it "breaks cross compilation". The
> > ldso link produced is not used for compiling anything; it's only used
> > for executing programs, which you don't do when cross compiling musl
> > or cross compiling applications against it. The link is setup to be
> > installed on the $host, not to be used on the $build where it's not
> > needed.
> >
> > Could you could explain what specifically you're trying to do that's
> > not working as desired?
> >
>
> If you look at commit msg
> for https://github.com/kraj/musl/commit/102f35b194a3405b30001ff08cfd54752179376f
>
> then you will see the usecase we have in for Yocto/OE
OK. So it's specifically execution of target binaries via qemu-user
that's broken.
The above patch isn't suitable because it introduces a dependency on a
nonstandard utility, GNU realpath, and thereby breaks cross compiling
of musl from non-GNU-like systems. It also might introduce
dependencies of the staged-area symlink structure into the link
contents.
I'd probably be happy with a solution that involves a make or shell
expression to convert $(syslibdir) into a suitable number of
repetitions of ../ to prepend to $(libdir)/libc.so, but I'm mildly
concerned about whether there may be setups with symlinks where this
breaks.
There's also always been a school of thought that the direction of the
symlink should be reversed, so that libc.so is the symlink and ldso is
the actual file, but I believe I tried to do this at least once and
ran into reasons it was problematic. I'd have to go dig up old
conversations to try to remember why...
Rich
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