Michael ABBOTT reported that populate is not relocatable.

Fix this by determining both the cross-readelf and the sys-root at runtime, not at build time.

 /trunk/configure            |    1     1     0     0 +
 /trunk/scripts/crosstool.sh |   14     6     8     0 ++++++--------
 /trunk/tools/populate.in    |    6     4     2     0 ++++--
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

configure

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ patch
 tar
 gzip
 bzip2
+readlink
 '
 
 PREFIX_DEFAULT=/usr/local

scripts/crosstool.sh

@@ -427,9 +427,9 @@ if [ "${CT_ONLY_DOWNLOAD}" != "y" -a "${CT_ONLY_EXTRACT}" != "y" ]; then
 
     # Install the /populator/
     CT_DoLog EXTRA "Installing the populate helper"
-    sed -r -e 's,@@CT_READELF@@,'"${CT_PREFIX_DIR}/bin/${CT_TARGET}-readelf"',g;'   \
-           -e 's,@@CT_SYSROOT_DIR@@,'"${CT_SYSROOT_DIR}"',g;'                       \
-           "${CT_LIB_DIR}/tools/populate.in" >"${CT_PREFIX_DIR}/bin/${CT_TARGET}-populate"
+    sed -r -e 's|@@CT_TARGET@@|'"${CT_TARGET}"'|g;' \
+        "${CT_LIB_DIR}/tools/populate.in"           \
+        >"${CT_PREFIX_DIR}/bin/${CT_TARGET}-populate"
     chmod 755 "${CT_PREFIX_DIR}/bin/${CT_TARGET}-populate"
 
     # Create the aliases to the target tools
@@ -438,15 +438,13 @@ if [ "${CT_ONLY_DOWNLOAD}" != "y" -a "${CT_ONLY_EXTRACT}" != "y" ]; then
     for t in "${CT_TARGET}-"*; do
         if [ -n "${CT_TARGET_ALIAS}" ]; then
             _t=$(echo "$t" |sed -r -e 's/^'"${CT_TARGET}"'-/'"${CT_TARGET_ALIAS}"'-/;')
-            CT_DoLog DEBUG "Linking '${_t}' -> '${t}'"
-            ln -sv "${t}" "${_t}" 2>&1 |CT_DoLog ALL
+            ln -sv "${t}" "${_t}" 2>&1
         fi
         if [ -n "${CT_TARGET_ALIAS_SED_EXPR}" ]; then
             _t=$(echo "$t" |sed -r -e "${CT_TARGET_ALIAS_SED_EXPR}")
-            CT_DoLog DEBUG "Linking '${_t}' -> '${t}'"
-            ln -sv "${t}" "${_t}" 2>&1 |CT_DoLog ALL
+            ln -sv "${t}" "${_t}" 2>&1
         fi
-    done
+    done |CT_DoLog ALL
     CT_Popd
     CT_EndStep
 

tools/populate.in

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 # (C) 2007 Yann E. MORIN
 # Licensed under the GPL v2
 
-CT_READELF="@@CT_READELF@@"
-CT_SYSROOT_DIR="@@CT_SYSROOT_DIR@@"
+# Detect where the toolchain is:
+BIN_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$(readlink -fn "$0")")"; pwd)"
+CT_READELF="${BIN_DIR}/@@CT_TARGET@@-readelf"
+CT_SYSROOT_DIR="${BIN_DIR}/../@@CT_TARGET@@/sys-root"
 
 myname=$(basename "$0")