[OE-core] [PATCH v2] libc6: improve reproducibility

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Bystricky, Juro
<juro.bystricky at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > plural.c: plural.y
>> >         $(BISON) $(BISONFLAGS) $@ $^
>> >
>> > If the above rule does not fire, we use a "fallback" plural.c, otherwise
>> > we use plural.c re-generated from plural.y.
>> > The fix is to always require bison to be installed and unconditionally
>> > re-generate plural.c. (This is achieved by touching plural.y).
>> >
>> > [YOCTO #12291]
>>
>> 2.27 will be there for next release. So I wonder if we should just wait.
>
> AFAIK 2.27 will always generate plural.c (plural.c will not be part of the distro at all). So "touching" plural.y is not needed. But we still need to add bison-native to DEPENDS
>
> DEPENDS += "gperf-native bison-native"
>
>

right. perhaps we should apply this patch and make a note for 2.27
upgrade to drop the last hunk