Re: [PATCH 0/2] meta-intel: add bbappends for systemtap

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/13/2011 11:49 AM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 11:32 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>> On 06/13/2011 07:32 AM, tom.zanussi@intel.com wrote:
>>> From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
>>>
>>> Removing any old references to systemtap from meta means we need to add
>>> it here.  It also adds systemtap support for the other, previously
>>> uncovered meta-intel bsps.
>>
>> Wouldn't it make more sense to add systemtap to and image recipe, either
>> a new recipe or a bbappend? Also, it seems to me that RRECOMMENDS would
>> make more sense than RDEPENDS - as it isn't required for boot.
>>
> 
> Hmm, not following you here - why would I want a new image recipe for
> systemtap?
> 
> Systemtap fits in with the other profiling tools in the
> task-core-tools-profile as far as I can see;\

Ah, I see. OK.

> this patch essentially adds
> systemtap to that list, but since it won't run on half the architectures
> we support, it can't be simply added to the recipe but needs to be
> appended for each machine (well, that may change when I switch to
> COMPATIBLE_HOST as pointed out by a couple people, but that was the
> reason behind the current appends).

> And, yeah, maybe RRECOMMENDs makes more sense here, will think about
> changing that on the respin.

OK.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel