[oe] Questions about gcc target packages

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 20:49 +0000, Jeremy Williams wrote:
> Looking into the first issue reveals something puzzling to me. If you look at
> gcc-package-target.inc, the do_install operation creates a .so symlink to
> libgcc. Looking at the FILES definition for the gcc package (non -dev), it
> appears that this symlink is being sucked into the package by the entry
> "${gcclibdir}/${TARGET_SYS}/${BINV}/lib*". Am I confused here?

I think you're probably right, and the QA test is just wrong/unhelpful
in this situation.  Having the .so symlink in the gcc package is the
correct thing to do: it would be silly to force everybody to install an
extra gcc-dev package in order to get it.

p.