[OE-core] [PATCH] eglibc: Remove bogus PACKAGES_DYNAMIC setting

[Saul Wold]

On 09/27/2012 04:44 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> It transpires that eglibc has been setting PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "libc6*" for
> some time.  However, this is bogus for at least two reasons:
>
> 1. Bitbake interprets PACKAGES_DYNAMIC as a regex, not a glob, so this will
> match against any package whose name starts "libc" plus zero or more sixes.
> This is particularly toxic because the nativesdk variant picks up the same
> value and will, consequently, start trying to build itself at the slightest
> excuse.
>
> 2. eglibc doesn't actually build any packages named "libc6<anything>", other
> than the ones that are named in PACKAGES anyway, so the dynamic provider
> declaration is in any case useless.
>
> Simply deleting the line is not sufficient since then we get the default
> value from bitbake.conf which causes eglibc.bb to fight with eglibc-locale.bb.
> So instead we must set it to the empty string for good results.
>
> Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net>
> ---
>   meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb |    3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
> index 3a7ae50..b37922d 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc_2.16.bb
> @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ SRC_URI_append_virtclass-nativesdk = " file://ld-search-order.patch \
>   S = "${WORKDIR}/${EGLIBC_BRANCH}/libc"
>   B = "${WORKDIR}/build-${TARGET_SYS}"
>
> -PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "libc6*"
> +PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = ""
> +
>   RPROVIDES_${PN}-dev = "libc6-dev virtual-libc-dev"
>   PROVIDES_${PN}-dbg = "glibc-dbg"
>
>
Merged into OE-Core

Thanks
	Sau!