Bug 591172 – prefix.eclass bprefixify to fix the interpreters of ELF

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benda Xu 2016-08-13 09:11:17 UTC]

Created attachment 443222 [details, diff]
prefix.patch

Hi, this patch introduces bprefixify, using patchelf to adjust interp ELF field on RAP.

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2016-08-13 21:50:31 UTC]

prefix.eclass is inherited by ebuilds with KEYWORDS for all or almost all architectures.
dev-util/patchelf has only KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux".
Addition of DEPEND="dev-util/patchelf" would require that dev-util/patchelf be firstly keyworded and stabilized on remaining architectures.


A potential alternative is to make prefix.eclass add this dependency only when some variable (e.g. PREFIX_ENABLE_DEPENDENCIES="1") is set by given ebuild before 'inherit prefix'.

[Comment 2 Michael Haubenwallner (RETIRED) 2016-08-17 07:29:21 UTC]

Or add it use-dependent, and for ELF systems only, something like:

DEPEND="prefix? ( !prefix-guest (
  kernel_linux ( dev-util/patchelf )
  kernel_SunOS ( dev-util/patchelf )
  ...
) )"

And make it a no-op on non-ELF systems for now please.

[Comment 3 Benda Xu 2017-12-11 08:29:55 UTC]

This is a sad situation.  We don't have a good way to install haskell in Prefix, as patchelf does not work on all the platforms.

[Comment 4 Benda Xu 2018-07-02 04:33:23 UTC]

Abandon ship.