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

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/9/12 Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>:
> 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.

I guess you mean modutils-cross. There is no modutils-native recipe
and the modutils one does not have BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
>
> 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

A patch does not seem to be needed

>From modutils configure --help
  --disable-insmod-static      Do not create insmod.static binary (default)

Btw this is from modutils-cross-2.4.27-r9

(and ofc is the usage is not correct and the flag is not the default
behaviour it can easily be added in the conf flags)

Have fun! Frans