[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] libc-locale: split locale handling from libc recipe.

[Xu, Dongxiao]

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> [mailto:openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of
> Khem Raj
> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 7:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] libc-locale: split locale handling from libc
> recipe.
> 
> On 06/23/2011 03:14 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:40 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 12:08 +0800, Xu, Dongxiao 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: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:45 PM
> >>>> To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> >>>> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] libc-locale: split locale
> >>>> handling from libc recipe.
> >>>>
> >>>> I still don't quite understand why the virtual/libiconv provider
> >>>> has moved from eglibc to eglibc-locale.  Can you explain what's going on
> there?
> >>>
> >>> Generally, the purpose of this patch is to reduce eglibc's do_package time.
> >>>
> >>> Since many other recipes' do_package have dependency on eglibc's
> do_package, thus the sooner eglibc could finish its do_package, the ealier can
> other do_packages be executed, which improves the parallelism.
> >>>
> >>>  From our study, we found most of eglibc's do_package time is used to
> handle locale. Therefore we split all the locale related stuffs into a separately
> recipe eglibc-locale.
> >>
> >> Yes, I understand that.  But I don't think this answers the question
> >> about why, specifically, glibc-locale is now PROVIDEing
> >> virtual/libiconv.  Does that recipe, in fact, implement libiconv?
> >
> > I must admit I was wondering about this too. Isn't the libiconv
> > functionality still packaged as part of the libc recipe, not the
> > locale part?
> >
> yes it should be in libc

Oh, it should be a mistake. I have changed that in my patch and doing test for it now.

Thanks,
Dongxiao

> 
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Richard
> >
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