[oe] uclibc: PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION = "git" not respected

[Bernhard Reutner-Fischer]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:17:55AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>Dear OE folks,
>
>
>the commit message of 070e46f2932b254a617d7ce88af9b078c2a2849f [1] says
>
>        With this change, you can put PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION="git"
>        into your conf/local.conf once or set
>        PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc{*}="git" and need not adjust local.conf
>        if the git revision was changed.
>
>I have the following line in my `local.conf`.
>
>    PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION               = "git"
>
>Doing `bitbake uclibc` with
>
>        DISTRO = "angstrom-2008.1"
>        
>        GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES = "en_US.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8"
>        
>        MACHINE = "beagleboard"
>        BUILD_ARCH = "i686"
>        BUILD_OS = "linux"
>        ANGSTROMLIBC = "uclibc"
>
>chooses uclibc-0.9.30.2-r34.0 nevertheless.
>
>Doing `git grep "PREFERRED_UCLIBC"` does not list anything distribution
>specific as far as I can see.

conf/distro/angstrom-2008.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc ?= "0.9.30.2"
conf/distro/angstrom-2008.1.conf:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-initial ?= "0.9.30.2"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc                    ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-initial            ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-cross              ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-cross-sdk          ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-cross-initial      ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"
conf/distro/include/sane-toolchain-uclibc.inc:PREFERRED_VERSION_uclibc-cross-intermediate ?= "${PREFERRED_UCLIBC_VERSION}"

so my guess is that you don't use sane-toolchain

HTH,