[oe] [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros

[Koen Kooi]

On 27-04-09 17:43, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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.

With bitbake 1.8.12? If it's fixed in bitbake svn, great!

regards,

Koen