[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] conf/bitbake.conf: include ed in hosttools

[Anders Darander]

* Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> [170519 01:17]:

> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-05-18 at 17:28 -0500, Jose Lamego wrote:
> >> Some recipes build fail due to missing ed command.

> >> This change includes ed to the hosttools required to
> >> run builds with oe-core.

> >> Signed-off-by: Jose Lamego <jose.a.lamego at linux.intel.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Sandoval <leonardo.sandoval.gonzalez at linux.in
> >> tel.com>

> > We really don't want to add ed here. Which recipes are failing and why
> > do we need ed to build them?

> we also need whoami which kernel uses to identify the build user id


No, we don't want to add whoami...

As fas as I can (in a recent kernel), whoami is only used in
scripts/mkcompile_h. And there, it's only used if $KBUILD_BUILD_USER is
empty. I'd rather see that we set $KBUILD_BUILD_USER to something
deterministic in our kernel.bbclass.

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB