The context for this is a pull request I've been working on for a few weeks.
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/28851
RAP prefix nobbled gcc/clang's sysroot when invoking the linker because glibc installed its linker scripts with prefixed paths, such as /path/to/prefix/lib rather than just /lib. Adjusting the linker scripts rather than the compiler behaviour is more natural and makes cross-compiling far easier.
For the migration procedure, I did try a different approach of manually fixing up the linker scripts, but if you do this first, the gcc build fails immediately, and if you do this afterwards, the gcc build fails later. A symlink is therefore needed to allow the sysroot to be applied, even when the linker script paths are still prefixed.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to filter news items on USE flags or even profile parents, so I've had to resort to explicitly listing all the prefix profiles. Prefix is quite a niche feature, so I don't want to show this news
to everyone.
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Title: Breaking changes to the RAP Prefix toolchain
Author: James Le Cuirot <
chewi@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2023-01-20
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/23.0/no-multilib/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/no-multilib/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/17.0/armv7a/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/23.0/armv7a/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm/23.0/split-usr/armv7a/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/17.0/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/23.0/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/arm64/23.0/split-usr/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/ppc64le/17.0/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/riscv/20.0/rv64gc/lp64d/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/riscv/23.0/rv64/lp64d/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/riscv/23.0/rv64/split-usr/lp64d/prefix/* Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/17.0/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/23.0/prefix/*
Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/23.0/split-usr/prefix/*
We are changing the way the toolchain operates on RAP Prefix systems in order to
reduce the number of hacks we need to apply and make cross-compiling easier.
If you using a non-RAP "Prefix Guest" or "Prefix Stack" variant (e.g. macOS) then this does not apply.
If you are using a libc other than glibc (e.g. musl) then this *does* apply, but
your libc will *not* break, so you should not carry out the following procedure.
The only other package known to be affected is dev-libs/libbsd, which you can simply update. If you find another package affected by this, then please file a bug report.
WARNING! It is important that you carry out the following procedure, otherwise your toolchain will break when you next update your compiler or glibc.
1. Run the following to create a temporary symlink:
EPREFIX=$(portageq envvar EPREFIX)
mkdir -p "${EPREFIX}${EPREFIX%/*}"
ln -sn "${EPREFIX}" "${EPREFIX}${EPREFIX}"
2. Update or rebuild all installed slots of sys-devel/gcc and sys-devel/clang
(if any). Feel free to remove any you no longer need.
3. Update or rebuild sys-libs/glibc.
4. Run the following to remove the symlink:
EPREFIX=$(portageq envvar EPREFIX)
rm "${EPREFIX}${EPREFIX}"
5. If dev-libs/libbsd is installed, then update it to 0.11.7-r2 or later.
If you are reading this having updated glibc first and you are no longer able to
build anything, then don't panic. Simply execute the line below and then carry out the regular procedure above.
qlist sys-libs/glibc | xargs grep -lIF "GNU ld script" | xargs sed -i -r "s: /(usr|lib): $(portageq envvar EPREFIX)/\1:g"
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