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@ydirson ydirson commented Jan 9, 2024

Until now the sysroot took in base.txz only the bare minimum to get cross gcc to build, by copying selectively a small number of libs into otherwise non-standard paths, and then fixing up the symlinks broken by the move.

This is a problem for clang, used by rust-bindgen, because the libs and headers were now in non-standard locations. And the greater number of libs that were not kept still had their headers installed, even though they were in /include/.

This keeps things as close as possible to upstream base system, creating symlinks for the strange specific the gcc cross build demands. For this we cannot help having to merge /lib into /usr/lib, but this should be better already.

PROBLEM:

With this the gcc build fails, apparently trying to find in host's /lib the libc that's otherwise findable in sysroot' /lib.

Until now the sysroot took in base.txz only the bare minimum to get cross
gcc to build, by copying selectively a small number of libs into otherwise
non-standard paths, and then fixing up the symlinks broken by the move.

This is a problem for clang, used by rust-bindgen, because the libs and
headers were now in non-standard locations.  And the greater number of libs
that were not kept still had their headers installed, even though they were
in /include/.

This keeps things as close as possible to upstream base system, creating
symlinks for the strange specific the gcc cross build demands.  For this
we cannot help having to merge /lib into /usr/lib, but this should be
better already.

PROBLEM:

With this the gcc build fails, apparently trying to find in host's /lib
the libc that's otherwise findable in sysroot' /lib.
@ydirson ydirson requested a review from a team as a code owner January 9, 2024 15:05
@ydirson ydirson marked this pull request as draft January 9, 2024 15:05
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