On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:49:34 +0200
Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> * Richard W. M. Jones:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Richard W. M. Jones:
> >>
> >> >> I don't want us to have RPM spec file hacks just to get RISC-V to
> >> >> install in the correct locations. The symbolic link evidently does not
> >> >> cover all cases.
> >> >
> >> > What cases aren't covered by the symlink? We have a full, working
> >> > Fedora/RISC-V distro using it at the moment.
> >>
> >> The symbolic link isn't in the buildroot.
> >
> > This is indeed a problem. The symlink should be moved from glibc to
> > filesystem. I don't know why we put it in glibc, historical anomaly I
> > guess. I'll prepare a couple of PRs today which will have to be
> > carefully pushed in a single side tag to fix this.
> >
> >> If shared objects are listed
> >> explicitly in %files (as some guidelines recommend) and upstream
> >> hard-codes the ABI directory names for installation purposes, the build
> >> fails.
> >>
> >> Setting %_libdir to /usr/lib64/lp64d instead might work. Fixing
> >> upstream to honor --libdir=/usr/lib64 in ./configure might be another
> >> option.
> >
> > I'm still unclear on what exactly the problem is that this solves.
> > We've built hundreds of C libraries in Fedora/RISC-V with the current
> > set up and it appears to work fine. Will moving the symlink (alone)
> > fix this or is there some other error?
>
> Sorry, see my other response. This is about the
> %buildroot/$RPM_BUILDROOT staging area used during the rpmbuild process,
> not the system installation.
perhaps rpmbuild could create a minimal directory structure
(%_bindir, %_libdir) when starting the %install section. And maybe it
could be generally beneficial ...
Dan
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