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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] libelf: Removes the package
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:11:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140828131122.2a0d4533@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409219230-17443-5-git-send-email-gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>

Dear Gregory CLEMENT,

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:47:10 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> The elfutils package provides a more recent version of the
> libelf. Some packages such as ltrace need this more recent
> version. Having two packages providing the same library leads to some
> conflicts or dependency problems. For instance at the end we had only
> one libelf.a when the 2 packages were selected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  package/Config.in                               |     1 -
>  package/libelf/Config.in                        |     7 -
>  package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch | 12361 ----------------------
>  package/libelf/libelf.mk                        |    23 -
>  4 files changed, 12392 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/Config.in
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch
>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf.mk

When removing a package, the config option of the package should be
moved to Config.in.legacy to allow the user to be warned that he is
using a no longer available package.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28  9:47 [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Use only elfutils package to provide the libelf library Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28  9:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/4] ltrace: Removes the libelf dependency Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28  9:58   ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-28  9:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4] avrdude: Depend on elfutils instead of libelf to get the libel library Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28 10:02   ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-28 10:04     ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28  9:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/4] kexec-lite: Depends on elfutils instead of libelf to get the libelf library Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28 10:06   ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-28  9:47 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] libelf: Removes the package Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28 11:11   ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-08-28 11:53     ` Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28  9:51 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Use only elfutils package to provide the libelf library Gregory CLEMENT
2014-08-28  9:53   ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-08-28 10:02 ` Gregory CLEMENT

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