[OE-core] [PATCH v2] elfutils: add PACKAGECONFIG for compression algorithms

Ross Burton ross.burton at intel.com
Wed Oct 16 10:10:44 UTC 2019


On 15/10/2019 23:46, Dan Callaghan wrote:
> It does seem like it would be simpler to just take bzip2-native out of
> ASSUME_PROVIDED, but I guess leaving it in there lets people avoid
> building bzip2-native under some circumstances.

I believe it's a bootstrap speed thing.  If we can assume bzip2 on the 
host exists we don't need to build it to get going, which is especially 
fun if you need to decompress bzip2 files to build bzip2...

Ross


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