[oe] [PATCH] sanity.bbclass: Check for the presennce of libc.a

[Philip Balister]

On 09/12/2010 06:36 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 17:24 +0800, Holger Freyther wrote:
>>> The insmod.static binary links statically and requires the libc.a
>>> to be present. On Fedora glibc-static is not installed by default
>>> when installing development headers. Warn the user that he needs
>>> to have that installed.
>>
>> Why are we building insmod.static for native anyway?  That seems a bit
>> silly.
>
> It is. FWIW, Poky now patches the modutils-cross recipe so it only
> builds the dynamically linked version to resolve exactly this issue.

I'd rather just have insane check for glibc-static and not have an extra 
patch we need to carry around. I know everytime I install OE on a Fedora 
based machine, I spend a few minutes remembering why modutils-native 
does not build.

Having a reminder to install glibc-static if needed would really help 
the new user experience for people using Fedora. I'd like to see 
Holger's change go in.

Philip


>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
>
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