[OE-core] [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Remove site_config and glibc-initial

[richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org]

On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 11:50 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> As the only users of siteconfig are now zlib and ncurses, should we
> just rip it out entirely leaving a gap for a fresh implementation?

I'm cc'ing Mark who has a lot of the history on this.

I think we're at a point where we likely need to re-implement this in a
different way...

Cheers,

Richard


> Ross
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 00:16, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The only reason we appear to need glibc-initial at this time is to
> > support
> > the site_config code. The site_config code compiles and therefore
> > needs
> > at least some level of working C library to link against.
> > 
> > This isn't a good reason to keep the complexity of glibc-initial
> > around
> > so remove it, and the site_config support which then breaks.
> > 
> > Performance benchmarks suggest the time spent just rerunning
> > configure
> > for site_config just about equals any performance benefit for OE-
> > Core
> > image builds excluding the time spent adding glibc-initial to the
> > dependency chain.
> > 
> > I'm not opposed to readding some other form of site_config support
> > but it needs to be rethought.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>