[OE-core] Using TCLIBC = "uclibc" in oe-core

[Khem Raj]

On 06/21/2011 07:04 AM, Tom Parkin wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'm trying to set up a working openembedded-core/uClibc mipsel
> environment.  I found that setting TCLIBC = "uclibc" in local.conf
> yielded the following:
>
> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'glib-2.0-native'
>
> I traced this down to code in meta/recipes-core/glib-2.0/glib-2.0.inc,
> which raises a SkipPackage exception if USE_NLS = "no".
>
> The reason that USE_NLS = "no" in this case is that
> meta/conf/distro/include/tclibc-uclibc.inc sets USE_NLS ?= "no".
>
> Looking further at tclibc-uclibc.inc, though, it appears that there is
> some code attempting to work around this issue:
>
> USE_NLS_glib-2.0 = "yes"
>
> Sadly, this appears to get ignored.  Following this up on the #yocto
> IRC channel, it seems that a more appropriate formulation of the above
> would be:
>
> USE_NLS_pn-glib-2.0-native = "yes"
>
> The attached patch allows me to (at least) assemble the bitbake task
> list when TCLIBC = "uclibc".  I'm not sure whether this is the correct
> approach, though.
>
> Any comments?

Yes this seems to be ok. If you look into angstrom distribution then it
already has it in its distro config files

http://git.angstrom-distribution.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/meta-angstrom/tree/conf/distro/include/angstrom-uclibc.inc

but probably putting it in core would be appropriate.
>
> Many thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>
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