[OE-core] [PATCH oe-core] valgrind: add powerpc to the compatible host and add eglibc-dbg in rdepends

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Wed Jan 4 04:39:21 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Garg Vakul-B16394 <B16394 at freescale.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthew
>
> I am not sure if I understood your point fully.
>
> I am suggesting to do below mentioned as suggested on valgrind page.
> http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.readme-packagers.html
>
>
> "If you don't want to leave symbols on ld.so, alternatively you can have your distro install ld.so's debuginfo package by default, or make ld.so.debuginfo be a requirement of your Valgrind RPM/DEB/whatever."

This is what I am suggest. If we include valgrind in an image and the
arch is powerpc or powerpc64, we need to include ld.so with debug
symbols by default. Otherwise valgrind will not work at all. This
seems like a reasonable thing to do for these two arches.

-M




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