[oe] [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros
Tom Rini
trini at embeddedalley.com
Mon Apr 27 14:19:43 UTC 2009
Hey all. I've created a new branch, trini/add-libc-overrides which does
the following:
- Make every distro declare PREFERRED_LIBC, either outright or
overridable.
- For Angstrom/foonas have DISTROVAR ?= ${PREFERRED_LIBC},
PREFERRED_LIBC ?= default
- Add conf/distro/include/{eglibc,glibc,uclibc}.inc that have:
- Add 'glibc' to OVERRIDES for eglibc/glibc and 'uclibc' for
uclibc.inc
- Default providers.
NOTE: ${TARGET_PREFIX} includes ${TARGET_VENDOR} so ...
- Switch all distros to have:
require conf/distro/include/${PREFERED_LIBC}.inc
- Clean up distro-specific includes, and sane-toolchain.inc a little
bit by removing all of the PREFERRED_PROVIDER stuff it no longer
needs.
- For glibc*.bb older than 2.5, add in some missing RPROVIDES.
That last change was required so that a number of distros would parse
without trying to build say both glibc_2.3.3 and glibc_2.9 (for
virtual-libc-dev) when I ran bitbake -g meta-toolchain minimal-image.
The next step, once something like this goes in, would be to change all
of the overrides that test for uclibc (or glibc) from
linux/linux-gnueabi vs linux-uclibc/linux-uclibcgnueabi to just
linux_glibc vs linux_uclibc.
That branch has been tested with bitbake -g meta-toolchain minimal image
for every distro for nslu2be nslu2le and beagleboard (arm/armeb/newer
arm) before and after, and the only differences are the stuff that now
parses thanks to the glibc changes. I've got a loop going now with
qemux86 db1200 and mpc8313e-rdb but don't expect any problems. I'll be
following up with the patches shortly.
--
Tom Rini
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