[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] mariadb: -native also needs gold workaround

[Khem Raj]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 10:15:23AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 02:57:55PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> >> When the host distro uses gold mariadb-native fails to build.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
>> >> ---
>> >>  meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb.inc | 3 +++
>> >>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb.inc b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb.inc
>> >> index a6826c3..6a55476 100644
>> >> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb.inc
>> >> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/mysql/mariadb.inc
>> >> @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[setupdb] = ", ,,${PN}-setupdb"
>> >>  # https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5982
>> >>  TARGET_CFLAGS += "-fuse-ld=bfd"
>> >>
>> >> +BUILD_CFLAGS += "-fuse-ld=bfd"
>> >> +BUILD_CXXFLAGS += "-fuse-ld=bfd"
>> >
>> > Unfortunately this breaks builds on older hosts with older gcc
>> >
>> > |   cc1: error: unrecognized command line option '-fuse-ld=bfd'
>> > http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/25859/
>> >
>> > Should we consider Ubuntu-12.04 insanely old?
>> >
>>
>> Its still maintained and supported until 2017 I believe.
>
> By Canonical yes:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

yeah so 2017

> but that doesn't automatically make it good distribution for OE builds, I'm playing
> devils advocate here, because most jenkins slaves I have access to are
> currently using 12.04 (that's why I've noticed this issue in first place).
>
> I was already considering upgrading them to 14.04 and people can use
> build-appliance-image if they cannot just upgrade their host distro.

It can be dropped. we have explicitly state that 12.04 may not be used
anymore. or something like
mimimum supported ubuntu/debian-like distros or so.  many large corps
have slow upgrade path. like we still carry patches
to support centos 5.x,

>
> FWIW: Poky already dropped it from SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS in Fido release:
>
> commit b528712a076ad2fd08ec8a3cbcd7aefd612d999f
> Author: Lucian Musat <george.l.musat at intel.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 23 12:35:12 2015 +0200
>
>     meta-yocto/distro: Updated SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS.
>
>     Added OpenSUSE-13.2, Fedora 21. Removed poky 1.6 and Ubuntu 12.04.
>
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