From: yocto-bounces@... [mailto:yocto-
bounces@...] On Behalf Of Scott Garman
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 11:02 AM

Hello,

I'd like to get some better clarity about what constitutes host
contamination when it comes to building packages. Could someone with
deeper knowledge of these issues clarify or comment on the following?

My understanding is that when building non -native recipes, there
should
be absolutely no linking to the libraries on the host system - meaning
that autotols configure scripts and so on should not be determining
which features are available based on what packages are installed on
the
host OS. The only exceptions to this are the use of some core system
utilities (cp, mv, etc).

However, when it comes to -native recipes, is it acceptable to link to
the host libraries? Since the package is intended to run on the same
host, I would think this would be acceptable, but I'm not certain.

The problem I'm working on which prompted this inquiry is a segfault
that is occurring with QEMU in certain circumstances. The latest Ubuntu
(10.10, Maverick) with the proprietary NVIDIA Xorg driver also installs
its own version of libGL, which is linked by qemu-native. If I
uninstall
the proprietary NVIDIA driver and rebuild qemu-native from scratch, the
segfault does not occur.

Thanks,

Scott

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Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Distro Engineer - Yocto Project
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