[oe] commit 806811bf2d72827d3031bfcd5dbab1e82324d34e breaks distros

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Mike Westerhof wrote:
>> The following commit breaks numerous non-angstrom distros:
>>
>> commit 806811bf2d72827d3031bfcd5dbab1e82324d34e
>> Author: Denys Dmytriyenko <denis at denix.org>
>> Date:   Wed Oct 14 14:25:07 2009 -0400
>>
>>     angstrom: clean ups of the external toolchain support
>>
>>
>> The symptom of the problem is this:
>>
>> $ bitbake slugos-image
>> ERROR: Unable to parse conf/bitbake.conf (Could not include required
>> file conf/distro/include/glibc.inc)
>> $
>>
>> It seems that glibc.inc has been removed, and possibly replaced by
>> either an external or an internal variant, but no non-angstrom distros
>> have been updated.
>>
>> Please forgive me if there was a discussion of this change on the
>> mailing list; I have been locked away behind corporate firewalls, and
>> living on-the-road for the past months, and just haven't been able to
>> keep up. :(
>>
>> How do I fix this, please?
>
> Mike,
>
> I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with my commit.
>
> I was told conf/distro/include/glibc.inc was only used by Angstrom. And
> grepping through files recursively kind of proves it - there are no in-tree
> distros using this file. There is another glibc.inc in recipes/glibc, but
> that's obviously a different one.
>
> I also ran a test build of minimal-image using minimal distro w/o any parsing
> issues.

Minimal uses its own set of files so this change wont affect it.
Looking at the patch I wonder virtual packages are now
picked up when you angstrom build which uses internal toolchain/glibc

>
> It looks like you may have out-of-tree distro which uses glibc.inc file in the
> conf directory. If this is the case, I apologize for removing it and would be
> happy to restore it for you.
>
> --
> Denys
>
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