[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2 v3] coreutils: add ptest

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Feb 28 07:51:27 UTC 2020


On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 18:51 -0500, Trevor Gamblin wrote:
> On 2/27/20 6:26 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 19:13 +0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> > > valgrind, gdb and strace are already pulled into core-image-sato-
> > > sdk-
> > > ptest (the one that runs the slow ptests on the AB), so there is
> > > no
> > > harm in adding them here as well.
> > Actually, there is.
> > 
> > Adding valgrind to the RDEPENDS of coreutils means all builds end
> > up
> > needing to include valgrind. We really don't want that.
> > 
> > I know this is bad but it is the way dependencies work today :(
> Should I resubmit with gdb and strace?

My personal opinion is no, these all end up enlarging the dependency
chains too much :(

Cheers,

Richard



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