[OE-core] [PATCH 8/8] busybox: add coreutils to RDEPENDS of busybox-ptest

[ChenQi]

On 11/15/2018 05:23 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 10:02 +0800, Chen Qi wrote:
>> busybox's echo test cases needs 'od' command to have '-t' option
>> support. However, our busybox disable it by default by not setting
>> CONFIG_DESKTOP. CONFIG_DESKTOP affects many busybox utilities. So
>> add coreutils to RDEPENDS of busybox-ptest.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-core/busybox/busybox.inc | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> This means any build of busybox will now also build coreutils which
> isn't really desirable.
>
> If there any way to just enable the -t option to od without all the
> other changes? Has this been mentioned to upstream busybox?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>

The current busybox codes are:
[snip]
#include "libbb.h"
#if ENABLE_DESKTOP
/* This one provides -t (busybox's own build script needs it) */
#include "od_bloaty.c"
#else
[snip]

So there's currently no way to just enable '-t' for 'od' without 
affecting other utilities.
I'll check with busybox upstream to see why they do so and if we could 
do some change.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi