Re: [crosstool-ng] Small question and mini-patch

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Michael,
All,

On Thursday 02 October 2008 20:56:19 Michael Abbott wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > I was thinking of an additional command line option to populate that
> > will make it accept a list of forced libraries, eg.:
> >   ${CT_TARGET}-populate -s dir1 -d dir2 --libs=libnss_{compat,files,dns}-\*.so
> > Would that help?
> Sounds like an interesting thought.

Yep. I will try to have time to look at it...

>  Arguably populate doesn't belong 
> in crosstool either, as it's really part of the rootfs builder.

Arguably it is! ;-)

populate is here to complete the rootfs with libraries from the toolchain.
Noone better than crosstool-NG knows where to copy such libraries from, and
thus it is the responsibility of crosstool-NG to provide a utility to retrieve
those libraries.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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