[oe] Building Linux Error

[S. Lockwood-Childs]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:42:59AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:00 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/12/2019 23:50, Khem Raj wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:57 PM Kamel Ghalgaoui
> > > <kamelghalgaoui7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> For information, I my kernel version is 5.3.11 and I have tar version:
> > 1.26
> > >> $ which tar
> > >> /usr/local/bin/tar
> > >>
> > >
> > > Interesting. I wonder if we should poison /usr/local for hosttools.
> >
> > Probably not a great idea, as people may be installing stuff in
> > /usr/local *because* their /usr is old.
> 
> 
> That means we are letting the default tested distro information not convey
> what it means. Perhaps it’s. Better to blacklist it and then let users
> enable it explicitly so they know what they are doing
> 
> Otherwise these kind of issues will always keep coming up where an tested
> distro with local overrides will do unexplained stuff

That's what I was thinking -- allow /usr/local to be un-blacklisted by advanced
users as needed; novice users should be highly encouraged to start with 
something supported as build system.