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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Give coreutils a chance to build the df utility
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:01:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319637716.22985.368.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKZ=5EUxO=fe+6p5qx4n5Y5_r1GQ+mokXOQhnuNgLbpx7Z4Heg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:58 +0100, Julian Pidancet wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:59 AM, McClintock Matthew-B29882
> <B29882@freescale.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Julian Pidancet
> > <julian.pidancet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> +do_configure_prepend () {
> >> +        export fu_cv_sys_stat_statfs2_bsize=yes
> >
> > I'm asking out of curiosity.. why don't these go in meta/site/common instead?
> 
> To be honest, I ignored the very existence of this file. Is this
> globally applied to all the recipes ? Isn't there a risk of breaking
> other packages by doing this ?

A small risk, yes.  On the other hand, by hardcoding one particular
value in the recipe, there is a risk that it might be the wrong answer
for some target systems.  Whereas the site files are, intentionally,
target and OS specific.

p.





      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-26 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25  1:18 [PATCH] Give coreutils a chance to build the df utility Julian Pidancet
2011-10-26  1:59 ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2011-10-26 13:58   ` Julian Pidancet
2011-10-26 14:01     ` Phil Blundell [this message]

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