[OE-core] Why qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc ?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 20 March 2012 16:42:41 Robert Yang wrote:
> I'm just curious that qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc:
> 
> meta/recipes-bsp/qemu-config/qemu-config.bb:RDEPENDS_${PN} = "distcc ..."
> 
> And there are 4 processes named "distcc" running after boot the target
> with "runqemu qemux86".
> 
> We have distcc on the target, but no gcc or g++, can we remove it from
> qemu-config's RDEPENDS?

I think the idea was that if you wanted to do compilation on the emulated 
target, having distcc would let you do it with much better performance. I  
agree it seems that it's not particularly useful if you're never going to do 
any compilation on the target though.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre