Hi,
On Wednesday 03 August 2016 13:29:07 Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> [...]
> > > Rebuilding the toolchain per se is not a problem; the problem is how to
> > > deploy the patched library. The process of rebuilding the toolchain
> > > basically installs the (fixed) toolchain in my development machine.
> > > This is perfect for the regular development cycle, however in this case
> > > what I really need is a way to deploy a hotfix with the patched library
> > > on the target systems (that are already running). So I was looking for a
> > > way to generate an ipkg/opkg or something that I can easily deploy.
> >
> > There should be a "platform-<name>/packages/glibc_2.16.0_*.ipk" which
> > could do this job.
>
> Perfect, this is (almost) what I need. Thank you.
>
> I think ptxdist installs ipkg utils on the host by default, but I cannot
> find them. Perhaps it is a private copy?
?
$ l platform-<name>/sysroot-host/bin/opkg
-rwxr-xr-x 2 jbe ptx 38824 Jul 19 15:34 platform-<name>/sysroot-host/bin/opkg
HOST_PACKAGE_MANAGEMENT_OPKG=y (and thus HOST_OPKG=y and HOST_OPKG_UTILS=y
-> but I'm using ptxdist master)
And this IPK-package ("platform-<name>/packages/glibc_2.16.0_*.ipk") is
generated by the regular rule "rules/glibc.make" for every PTXdist project.