Description of problem:

Installing gcc to a non-default --installroot location results in a broken ld

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso 

[liveuser@localhost home]$ yum --version
3.2.28
  Installed: rpm-4.8.1-5.fc14.x86_64 at 2010-10-22 18:31
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2010-08-10 07:43
  Committed: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai> at 2010-08-10

  Installed: yum-3.2.28-5.fc14.noarch at 2010-10-22 18:31
  Built    : Fedora Project at 2010-10-05 13:03
  Committed: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> at 2010-10-05
[liveuser@localhost home]$ 
[liveuser@localhost home]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 18 23:57:44 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[liveuser@localhost home]$ 

How reproducible:

See steps below.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Install gcc in a non-default location:  

  yum --installroot=/media/OS/home/26blahfc14/26blahfc14 -y -v install gcc

Actual results:

Observe that ld is broken because the softlinks are to _absolute_ paths!:

    $ cd /media/OS/home/26blahfc14
  
    $ find . -name ld | xargs ls -laF
  
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 38 Mar  4 16:30 ./etc/alternatives/ld -> /usr/bin/ld.bfd
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 48 Mar  4 16:30 ./usr/bin/ld -> /etc/alternatives/ld
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 57 Mar  4 16:30 ./var/lib/alternatives/ld*
  
    $ find . -name ld.bfd | xargs ls -laF
  
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 587984 Nov 15 05:43 ./usr/bin/ld.bfd*
  

Expected results:

Either (A) soft-links should be to _relative_ paths, or (B) the --installroot should be pre-fixed to the absolute paths.

To elaborate,

Either (A):

    $ cd /media/OS/home/26blahfc14
    $ pwd
    /media/OS/home/26blahfc14
    $ find . -name ld | xargs ls -laF
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 48 Mar  4 17:58 ./etc/alternatives/ld -> ../../usr/bin/ld.bfd*
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 58 Mar  4 17:57 ./usr/bin/ld -> ../../etc/alternatives/ld*
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 57 Mar  4 16:30 ./var/lib/alternatives/ld*
    $ find . -name ld.bfd | xargs ls -laF
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 587984 Nov 15 05:43 ./usr/bin/ld.bfd*
    $
 
Or (B): 

    $ cd /media/OS/home/26blahfc14
    $ pwd
    /media/OS/home/26blahfc14
    $ find . -name ld | xargs ls -laF
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 48 Mar  4 17:58 ./etc/alternatives/ld -> /media/OS/home/26blahfc14/usr/bin/ld.bfd*
    lrwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 58 Mar  4 17:57 ./usr/bin/ld -> /media/OS/home/26blahfc14/etc/alternatives/ld*
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 57 Mar  4 16:30 ./var/lib/alternatives/ld*
    $ find . -name ld.bfd | xargs ls -laF
    -rwxrwxrwx. 1 liveuser liveuser 587984 Nov 15 05:43 ./usr/bin/ld.bfd*
    $


Additional info:

Work-around is to delete installed soft-links, and to create soft-links as in (A) or (B) above.