Re: Using TCLIBC = "uclibc" in oe-core

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:04 +0100, Tom Parkin wrote:
> > The attached patch allows me to (at least) assemble the bitbake task
> > list when TCLIBC = "uclibc".  I'm not sure whether this is the correct
> > approach, though.
> 
> Do you know why glib-2.0.inc is doing this crazy thing in the first
> place?  If we're going to have code in the config files to effectively
> make it think that USE_NLS is always on, maybe that check should just be
> removed.
> 
> You're right though that the current line in tclibc-uclibc.inc is
> clearly just wrong and should be either fixed or deleted.

It does appear to work due to code in base.bbclass which does:

    use_nls = bb.data.getVar('USE_NLS_%s' % pn, d, 1)
    if use_nls != None:
        bb.data.setVar('USE_NLS', use_nls, d)

where this code predates the use of pn-${PN} in overrides.

Nowadays it makes sense just to use the pn- override and we should drop
this legacy stuff IMO.

Cheers,

Richard