[OE-core] [PATCH] pam: Add libtirpc to build dependencies

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue May 14 21:10:10 UTC 2013


On May 14, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 07:33 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, RicharPurdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 23:45 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> libtirpc is looked for by configure and if found
>>>> its enabled. So lets make it consistent and enable
>>>> it always
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.1.6.bb |    2 +-
>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> What is the benefit of this dependency?
>> 
>> 
>> When building from sstate the build of libpam would fail during
>> configure if the machine who populated sstate had libtirpc staged
>> before building libpam and with high parallelism its quite often 
> 
> Does this mean that every image which uses pam will also drag in tirpc?

yes. 


> What's the cost in space and time for that?
> 

142K -  libtirpc.so.1.0.10

Time I can't quantify, depends on your build system e.g. on my system built from scratch with and without dependency
showed few (20+) seconds difference. It might vary for you.


> p.
> 
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