[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: Add comm to HOSTTOOLS

[Mauno Niko]

On 01/30/2018 04:20 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 01/30/2018 09:07 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> 
>>> I disagree. Expanding HOSTTOOLS just to cater to the needs of a 
>>> single recipe is not optimal, IMO.
>>
>> alternative are
>> build time dep on coreutils-native.
>> fix uboot script to not use comm
>> do not invoke check-config.sh at all.
>>
>> none of them are any better.
> 
> Before we can declare that, we need to look what comm is actually used 
> for during build, and why its absence is not a problem and doesn't cause 
> errors.
> 
> Consider also that using comm from host may break reproducibility, if 
> absence or presence of comm on the host results in a different output 
> from the build.

My patch initially did add coreutils-native to u-boot DEPENDS.

Should I resubmit it? (did not apply due to mismatch in recipe filename (version))