[OE-core] [PATCH] core-image-minimal-initramfs: add libgcc into the initramfs image

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 14:45:30 UTC 2019


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:39 AM Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 12:34, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The customer needs to depend on libgcc in their app, or their
> > initramfs, we're not adding random dependencies to the initramfs "just
> > in case".
>
> Part of the goal of my ELF parser rewrite was to make it easy to add
> libgcc dependencies on binaries that use pthread_cancel automatically.
>

your suggestion about letting needing package rdep on it right, but
adding a hardcoded dependency on libgcc is not. We have to consider
a case where where there are alternatives to libgcc which can provide
same functionality and is preferred.

> Ross
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