[OE-core] [PATCH] Give coreutils a chance to build the df utility

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Wed Oct 26 14:01:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:58 +0100, Julian Pidancet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:59 AM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882 at freescale.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Julian Pidancet
> > <julian.pidancet at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> +do_configure_prepend () {
> >> +        export fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes
> >
> > I'm asking out of curiosity.. why don't these go in meta/site/common instead?
> 
> To be honest, I ignored the very existence of this file. Is this
> globally applied to all the recipes ? Isn't there a risk of breaking
> other packages by doing this ?

A small risk, yes.  On the other hand, by hardcoding one particular
value in the recipe, there is a risk that it might be the wrong answer
for some target systems.  Whereas the site files are, intentionally,
target and OS specific.

p.






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