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Message-Id: <7193C5A6-EAE6-4EBE-958D-58D90D4409A0@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 00:49:57 -0700
From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: relative link between libc.so and the dynamic linker


> On Aug 3, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Sidney Manning <sidneym@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to suggest making the symbolic link between libc.so and
> ld-musl-<target>.so.1 relative rather than absolute.  A relative path makes
> movement between systems easier, in particular when one is copying cross
> binaries to into a runtime environment.
> 
> diff --git a/tools/install.sh b/tools/install.sh
> index d913b60..1c102f5 100755
> --- a/tools/install.sh
> +++ b/tools/install.sh
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ trap 'rm -f "$tmp"' EXIT INT QUIT TERM HUP
> umask 077
> 
> if test "$symlink" ; then
> -ln -s "$1" "$tmp"
> +ln -s -r "$1" "$tmp"
> else
> cat < "$1" > "$tmp"
> chmod "$mode" "$tmp"
> 
> 
> 
> The final result would look something like this:
> ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 -> ../usr/lib/libc.so
> 
> Rather than:
> ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 -> /tmp/musl/install/usr/lib/libc.so

Does something like this help you

https://github.com/kraj/musl/commit/c0b1bd4e6bb60b8167e1f4a40beccff7f8871691



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