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

[Randy MacLeod]

On 10/16/19 6:10 AM, Ross Burton wrote:
> 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...

To save other people from checking if the bzip2 recipe and Ross are mad:

$ grep "SRC_URI =" meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
SRC_URI = "https://sourceware.org/pub/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \

so the recipe is sane at least. ;-)
../Randy

> 
> Ross


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