[oe] [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros

Tom Rini trini at embeddedalley.com
Mon Apr 27 15:43:42 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:33:31PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 27-04-09 16:19, Tom Rini wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ACK on the idea, NACK on the implementation.
>
> ANGSTROMLIBC is called ANGSTROMLIBC and not ANGSTROM_LIBC for a reason,  
> since you can't pass env vars with underscores throught bitbake:  
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-December/007258.html

OK.  But what about ANGSTROM_GCC_VERSION ?  I've been passing that in
via BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE for a while and it's working, as far as I can
tell.

But, OK, I'll redo it as PREFERREDLIBC and get a new branch up soon.

-- 
Tom Rini




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