[oe] [OE-core] problem with blacklisted packages

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-07-06 17:01, piotr.lewicki wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having problem with some of the recipes which are blacklisted due to problems with compilation using GCC-6.
>
> I wonder if there is a way to "whitelist" those packages without changing content of original recipe?
>
> For now I have:
>
> GCCVERSION = "5.%"
>
> in my distro.conf so if a recipe is not building due to problems with gcc6 I simply edit the recipe and remove the line
> with PNBLACKLIST.
>
> Is there a better way to deal with those problems?
> Can this blacklisting depend on "GCCVERSION" ?
>
> Example of problematic recipe : crda (from crda_3.18.bb)
>

I asked this same question last week :-)  I agree that not everyone
is using the leading edge compilers and making those of us have to
take such pains is a bit unfair.

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