Re: [RFC] Adding eglibc versions of minimal and micro distro

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On (18/08/09 08:44), Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:29:31PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Tom Rini<trini@embeddedalley.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:21:31AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Tom Rini<trini@embeddedalley.com> wrote:
> > >> > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I would like to add minimal-eglibc and micro-eglibc distros on same
> > >> >> lines as -uclibc one's
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Any objections ?
> > >> >
> > >> > minimal-uclibc and micro-uclibc should go away and just pickup from LIBC
> > >> > being passed in / set.
> > >>
> > >> Ideally yes but there are other things like libintl libiconv etc which
> > >> needs special handling
> > >> for uclibc. So having uclibc counterparts is good.
> > >
> > > I don't follow.  LIBC, and the associated inc file set the preferred
> > > providers correctly.  Or are you talking about sharing the same TMPDIR
> > > for > 1 distro ?
> > 
> > If u dont set LIBC then by default glibc is picked. Now it will pick

> 
> If you don't set LIBC that's not a valid distribution configuration.

True however I was talking in context of minimal and micro distros, not in general.

> 
> > eglibc instead
> > not many users override LIBC in there local.conf this way eglibc will
> > get more tested
> 
> So the default should be: LIBC ?= "eglibc" then for minimal, to pull in
> the eglibc.inc file that sets libintl/iconv/etc.

yes

> 
> -- 
> Tom Rini
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