[OE-core] [PATCH 04/10] glibc: bring back the needed support for glibc recipes

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Kamble, Nitin A
<nitin.a.kamble at intel.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
>> Phil Blundell
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 3:10 PM
>> To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
>> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 04/10] glibc: bring back the needed
>> support for glibc recipes
>>
>> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 15:04 -0700, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org
>> > > [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>> > > Phil Blundell
>> > > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 2:51 PM
>> > > To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
>> > > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 04/10] glibc: bring back the needed
>> > > support for glibc recipes
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 08:01 -0700, nitin.a.kamble at intel.com wrote:
>> > > > From: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
>> > > >
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble at intel.com>
>> > >
>> > > This commit message is very terse.  Why is this change necessary?
>> >
>> > Because meta-x32 layer has glibc, which needs these support files. I
>> will update the commit message in the tree.
>>
>> Can't the tclibc-glibc file go in meta-x32 as well, then?
>>
> It can go in the meta-x32 layer, but I think better place for this support file is in the meta layer. It would help avoid duplication of the code in multiple layers.

Part of the answer here is that obsolete / etc things don't belong in
the core, but in other layers that need them.  My read on things is
that we've removed glibc in favor of eglibc...

-- 
Tom