[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] gettext: rationalise optional dependencies

[Burton, Ross]

On 11 January 2018 at 18:55, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > gettext has optional dependencies on libxml2, glib, libcroco and
> libunistring.
> > If they're not available then gettext will use internal copies, but it
> can also
> > use system libraries.
> >
> > For gettext-native and nativesdk-gettext continue to use the internal
> copies to
> > reduce the dependencies, but for target use the system shared libraries.
> >
>
> Do we get any reduction in size ? if yes how much, not sure whats the
> defaults
> generally used by other distributions but it would nice to be using
> the default config
> options for best results.


When using the system shared libraries the gettext package is about a
megabyte smaller from memory, but obviously it has more deps (which is why
I left it as a packageconfig).

For native, circular dependencies mean we can't use system libraries anyway.

Ross
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