[oe] [PATCH, RFC] Add linux-libc-headers-native, make it default dep for native

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com> wrote:
> > On some host distributions the provided linux kernel headers are too old
> > to compile utilities we need[1].  Given that we need these utilities to
> > run things on the target the best solution is to provide
> > linux-libc-headers-native.  Rather than get things into an inconsistent
> > state, we make linux-libc-headers-native be a default dependency.
>
> could it be made optional so people who use distribution where this is not
> needed are not penalized.
>

You mean like ASSUME_PROVIDED += "linux-libc-headers-native"?
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