[oe] [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:32:43PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:45:02PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> 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!
>>
>> Yeap.  Even double-checked my build-dirs to be sure,
>> tmp.4.1.2/work/armv6... has gcc-4.1.2 stuff in it.
>
> What bitbake is in the stable branch? We should be careful forcing dev  
> to diverge stable for at least a few months ....
>
> Of course, we can update .stables bitbake also.

Stable is .12 as well.  There's a few nice cleanups that Chris has done
that don't quite work with .12, but do with what's in development
(COLLECTIONS for example) so we need to think about this problem for
other reasons :)

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Tom Rini