[Clfs-dev] Boot Method is Broken

[Chris J. Breisch]

On 1/24/2013 5:24 PM, William Harrington wrote:
>
> I'm guessing the issue with the boot method is with multilib books. We 
> have missed a step in our commands either in creating directories or 
> creating essential symlinks.
> libuuid and libblkid isn't being found where it should be for one 
> reason or another.
>
I'm almost certain the problem lies in util-linux, although I'm going to 
have to start over again to retest. I think that I have messed something 
up somehow.

When I first looked, I didn't think I saw libuuid installed anywhere. 
However, after re-running make install in util-linux, it was installed, 
so maybe I was mistaken. Knew I should have sent that find output to a 
log file. Anyway, I'm suspicious of all my later results, because I'm 
unsure of the results of the first make install in util-linux. Have to 
wipe and restart to verify.

e2fsprogs' configure still couldn't find it, though. Using gcc -v, 
-Wl,--verbose I determined that it was looking for libuuid.so in 
/tools/lib64

Looks like we need to create some symlinks at the end of 7.4 util-linux. 
Something along the lines of:

pushd /tools/lib64
ln -svf libblkid.so.1 libblkid.so
ln -svf libuuid.so.1 libuuid.so
popd

(Or whatever particular command sequence you prefer to get the links there)

However, that alone is insufficient to get the configuration of 
e2fsprogs to succeed. It gets past the test of -luuid, but -lblkid still 
fails.

 From gcc -v, -Wl,--verbose:

/home/clfs/multilib/cross-tools/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.3/../../../../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
warning: libuuid.so.1, needed by 
/home/clfs/multilib/tools/lib/../lib64/libblkid.so, not found (try using 
-rpath or -rpath-link)
/home/clfs/multilib/tools/lib/../lib64/libblkid.so: undefined reference 
to `uuid_unparse at UUID_1.0'

Adding -luuid to the command line fixes that problem.

So, with what I have specified above, when using -lblkid, -luuid is also 
required. However, configure only supplies -lblkid and expects that to 
be sufficient. Frankly, I agree with configure. :) We could supply 
configure with LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath,/tools/lib64" as we do make. In my 
current setup, that allows configure to complete successfully. Make and 
make install do as well.

However, as I said, before I can verify that any of these solutions 
actually work, I need to restart from scratch.

My host machine isn't very speedy. It'll be several hours before I can 
retest this again. I'll see about sending out an e-mail late tonight, 
but it will likely be tomorrow morning.  I have family commitments all 
day tomorrow, so I won't be able to spend any time on this other than a 
quick status check first thing in the morning.

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Chris J. Breisch<http://www.sports-gazer.com>