[oe] [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros

[Koen Kooi]

On 10-05-09 21:47, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 02:29:53PM +0200, Leon Woestenberg wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Mike (mwester)<mwester at dls.net>  wrote:
>>>> Acked-by: Mike Westerhof<mwester at dls.net>
>>>>
>>> I think we can add this functionality now.
>>>
>>> By the recent merge of "micro.conf" and "micro-uclibc.conf", a new
>>> TODO is to merge the LIBC feature into micro distro as well.
>>> See "[oe] Pull request from DoréDevelopment - New: Micro distro/image"
>>
>> I'll push this out Monday AM us.  IMHO, for micro and micro-uclibc (and
>> similar for minimal/minimal-uclibc) is to merge them back into one and
>> make LIBC an easy override.
>
> So, here's a problem we've run into now.  With distros that use
> debian.bbclass, having an OVERRIDE of 'glibc' added causes the glibc
> recipe to not create a 'glibc' package, nor a 'libc6' package.  The
> libc6-dev package is created.

I suspect that's because ${PN} ('glibc') is now in overrides twice, try 
changing the override to libc-glibc or something similar.

regards,

KOen