[OE-core] [PATCH 0/6] RFC Distro config changes

[Koen Kooi]

Op 11 mei 2011, om 12:54 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 12:13 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Op 11 mei 2011, om 11:45 heeft Richard Purdie het volgende geschreven:
>>> For the uclibc bits, I'm proposing
>>> to add:
>>> 
>>> +DEPLOY_DIR_append = "-uclibc"
>>> +STAGING_DIR_TARGET_append = "-uclibc"
>>> +STAGING_DIR_HOST_append = "-uclibc"
>>> +SSTATE_MANIFESTS_append = "-uclibc"
>>> 
>>> to tclibc-uclibc.inc.
>> 
>> Can we use _append_libc-uclibc = "uclibc" or even plain ${TCLIBC} in a
>> generic include file? That would be a lot more readable and fix glibc
>> vs eglibc.
> 
> Changing uclibc around is ok as its not something that has worked well
> in with OE-Core for a while. What I'm trying to avoid is having to bump
> all the versions of the sstate files, the sysroot layout and associated
> version numbers which is what would have to happen if we change the
> eglibc layout :(.
> 
> Obviously, if angstrom switches layout its pain for you though so I
> suspect someone loses with this either way :/.

I would think consistency is best, so either set always append TCLIBC or never. This isn't a lot more pain than the '-' to '_' change in machine names a while ago. And that even had runtime pains!

regards,

Koen