Re: [RFC] Bring PREFERRED_LIBC to all distros

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:45:02PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> On 27-04-09 17:43, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 05:33:31PM +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>> On 27-04-09 16:19, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>>> Hey all.  I've created a new branch, trini/add-libc-overrides which does
>>>>> the following:
>>>>> - Make every distro declare PREFERRED_LIBC, either outright or
>>>>>     overridable.
>>>> ACK on the idea, NACK on the implementation.
>>>>
>>>> ANGSTROMLIBC is called ANGSTROMLIBC and not ANGSTROM_LIBC for a reason,
>>>> since you can't pass env vars with underscores throught bitbake:
>>>> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2008-December/007258.html
>>> OK.  But what about ANGSTROM_GCC_VERSION ?  I've been passing that in
>>> via BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE for a while and it's working, as far as I can
>>> tell.
>> With bitbake 1.8.12? If it's fixed in bitbake svn, great!
> 
> Yeap.  Even double-checked my build-dirs to be sure,
> tmp.4.1.2/work/armv6... has gcc-4.1.2 stuff in it.

What bitbake is in the stable branch? We should be careful forcing dev 
to diverge stable for at least a few months ....

Of course, we can update .stables bitbake also.

Philip

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