[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] libpng12: remove the recipe

[Burton, Ross]

On 4 May 2017 at 10:18, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
> wrote:

> Then meta-oe can continue to host libpng12.
>>
>
> I actually think allowing those recipes to fail and blacklisting them is
> better. Moving libpng12 to meta-oe is the lazy way out; the proper way to
> deal with such regressions is to look at the actual recipes, what they do,
> why they need such an old version of libpng, and whether they should be
> updated or removed from meta-oe altogether. The only way to get people to
> do this real maintenance work is to break the build for them, sadly. I
> cannot take on maintaining things in meta-oe in this way, I have to draw
> the line somewhere, and this is it.
>

For what it's worth, glmark2 was fixed in 2014:

https://github.com/glmark2/glmark2/commit/499aa81a68fb4c8aac1c80f0d6a4cce05941c4cc

glcompbench appears to be a fork of glmark, so the same fix should be
trivial to apply.

Ross
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