Hi Arne,

I don't think the symlink is such a big deal, it only makes sure that 
some stupid configure scripts with hard-coded library paths find the  
loader. Ofcourse it should be better to fix all the sources upstream, 
and it's definitly something that should be done. But I don't think 
this link will prevent sources from being crosscompiled (it points to 
the crosscompiled loader).

AFAIK it has nothing to do with target-compiled executables on the 
host system. 

Eric

> Warning:The symlink from /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 -->
> /home/pst/LEAF/buildtool/staging/lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 does not exist,
> this may cause problems with some configure scripts that try to run
> a compiled program
>
>
>
> Do we still need this link?  If this is the case, then how can 
buildtool
> do cross-arch targeting?  We shouldn't be running any target-
compiled
> executables on the host environment.
>

Well, actually we are not really cross compiling right now, the 
buildenv
should be - in general - useable for cross compiling, most 
buildtool.mk
files are not. I hope this will change in the future as i know some
people who are interested in porting bering-uclibc to mips...There 
are a
lot of bad configure files out there...

> If someone can point me at the program/issue that was causing the
> problem, I'll take a peek at fixing it.

I know that keepalived configure is quite ugly and refuses to work
properly when trying to cross compile but i can't remember right now
which other packages needed the symlink.. But should be easy to find
out, just don't create that link, uncomment the check_lib_link in
buildtool.pl and use tools/buildall.sh to get everything build...

--arne


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