[oe] [RFC] Adding eglibc versions of minimal and micro distro

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:29:31PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tom Rini<trini at embeddedalley.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tom Rini<trini at embeddedalley.com> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi
> >> >>
> >> >> I would like to add minimal-eglibc and micro-eglibc distros on same
> >> >> lines as -uclibc one's
> >> >>
> >> >> Any objections ?
> >> >
> >> > minimal-uclibc and micro-uclibc should go away and just pickup from LIBC
> >> > being passed in / set.
> >>
> >> Ideally yes but there are other things like libintl libiconv etc which
> >> needs special handling
> >> for uclibc. So having uclibc counterparts is good.
> >
> > I don't follow.  LIBC, and the associated inc file set the preferred
> > providers correctly.  Or are you talking about sharing the same TMPDIR
> > for > 1 distro ?
> 
> If u dont set LIBC then by default glibc is picked. Now it will pick

If you don't set LIBC that's not a valid distribution configuration.

> eglibc instead
> not many users override LIBC in there local.conf this way eglibc will
> get more tested

So the default should be: LIBC ?= "eglibc" then for minimal, to pull in
the eglibc.inc file that sets libintl/iconv/etc.

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Tom Rini