On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 1:02 PM Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote:
>   a minor oddity i stumbled over digging into the proper installation
> of shared libraries ... building core-image-minimal for qemuarm64 and,
> for the most part, recipes from oe-core that install shared libs put
> all three artifacts (real name, so name and linker name) under
> /usr/lib, as in:
>
>   ./libtirpc/1.3.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libtirpc.so
>   ./libtirpc/1.3.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libtirpc.so.3
>   ./libtirpc/1.3.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libtirpc.so.3.0.0
>
> however, the *occasional* recipe chooses to -- for whatever reason --
> distinguish between libdir and base_libdir. for example, here's the
> result of installing tcp-wrappers' shared libs in its ${D} directory:
>
>   ./tcp-wrappers/7.6-r10/image/lib/libwrap.so.0.7.6
>   ./tcp-wrappers/7.6-r10/image/lib/libwrap.so.0
>   ./tcp-wrappers/7.6-r10/image/usr/lib/libwrap.so
>
> this is due to the following manual override in tcp-wrappers_7.6.bb:
>
>   do_install () {
>         oe_libinstall -a libwrap ${D}${libdir}
>         oe_libinstall -C shared -so libwrap ${D}${base_libdir}
>
>         if [ "${libdir}" != "${base_libdir}" ] ; then
>                 rel_lib_prefix=`echo ${libdir} | sed 
> 's,\(^/\|\)[^/][^/]*,..,g'`
>                 libname=`readlink ${D}${base_libdir}/libwrap.so | xargs 
> basename`
>                 ln -s ${rel_lib_prefix}${base_libdir}/${libname} 
> ${D}${libdir}/libwrap.so
>                 rm -f ${D}${base_libdir}/libwrap.so
>         fi
>         ...
>
> so this recipe -- after doing the *default* shared lib installation
> via oe_libinstall() -- conditionally chooses to override that.

git blame is often the best starting point for understanding why
things are done in a certain way. In this case the comment from the
original comment (from 11 years ago..) references portmap, which is no
longer supported by oe-core:

  
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=6ffc4f2e04f2d405b14f198220a3613d386489e7

>   another recipe that is even odder is libcap-ng:
>
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/lib/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/lib/libcap-ng.so.0
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libcap-ng.so
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libdrop_ambient.so.0
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libdrop_ambient.so
>   ./libcap-ng/0.8.2-r0/image/usr/lib/libdrop_ambient.so.0.0.0
>
> which seems odd since it does that override for *one* of the shared
> libs that it generates, but not the other:
>
>   do_install:append() {
>         # Moving libcap-ng to base_libdir
>         if [ ! ${D}${libdir} -ef ${D}${base_libdir} ]; then
>                 mkdir -p ${D}/${base_libdir}/
>                 mv -f ${D}${libdir}/libcap-ng.so.* ${D}${base_libdir}/
>                 relpath=${@os.path.relpath("${base_libdir}", "${libdir}")}
>                 ln -sf ${relpath}/libcap-ng.so.0.0.0 
> ${D}${libdir}/libcap-ng.so
>         fi
>   }

The original commit from 2013 gives a few more clues in this case:

  
https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-selinux/commit/?id=587fdba43a7747992995029a88d3051ef0efe7f6

It's not explicit which QA test was being triggered but presumably it
was "unsafe-references-in-binaries", which has since been dropped from
oe-core:

  
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=a6af5bbf3dad6f0951c67a0aae13ef86a8906893

So... it looks like these examples of moving libs to base_libdir are
obsolete and can be dropped.

Some comments in insane.bbclass left behind when the
unsafe-references-in-binaries and unsafe-references-in-scripts QA
tests were removed can be dropped too.

> given that almost all other recipes seem happy to just stuff all that
> under /usr/lib, what is the rationale for the above occasional
> difference? it pretty clearly doesn't affect functionality; it just
> looks strange.
>
> rday
>
> 
>
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