From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB114C80097 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 08:44:07 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id A161A16602C4; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 07:44:06 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8683D16602BA; Mon, 7 Feb 2011 07:44:05 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D500535.3070505@mlbassoc.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:44:05 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Subject: eglibc configurability X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:44:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I often run small (slow) embedded systems with only a ramdisk based file system. When I use Poky for this, one side effect is that some packages need to be "configured" on bootup, which in the case of a ramdisk based operation means every time. I notice that the eglibc package brings in a couple of these which are problematic (mostly in how long they take to run) Looking at meta/conf/distro/include/poky-eglibc.inc: LIBC_DEPENDENCIES = "libsegfault \ eglibc \ eglibc-dbg \ eglibc-dev \ eglibc-utils \ eglibc-thread-db \ eglibc-localedata-i18n \ eglibc-gconv-ibm850 \ eglibc-gconv-cp1252 \ eglibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \ eglibc-gconv-iso8859-15 \ locale-base-en-us \ locale-base-en-gb " On my OMAP-L138 target, configuring locale-base-* takes a long time, upwards of 35 seconds each. Are multiple locale-base packages really necessary? How could I best (in the Poky spirit) limit this? In the minimum, I'd like to only have one locale, saving at least 35 seconds of boot time. Ideas? Comments? Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------