Re: [PATCH oe-core] valgrind: add powerpc to the compatible host and add eglibc-dbg in rdepends

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

On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 04:39 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Garg Vakul-B16394 <B16394@freescale.com> wrote:
> > Hi Matthew
> >
> > I am not sure if I understood your point fully.
> >
> > I am suggesting to do below mentioned as suggested on valgrind page.
> > http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/dist.readme-packagers.html
> >
> >
> > "If you don't want to leave symbols on ld.so, alternatively you can
> have your distro install ld.so's debuginfo package by default, or make
> ld.so.debuginfo be a requirement of your Valgrind RPM/DEB/whatever."
> 
> This is what I am suggest. If we include valgrind in an image and the
> arch is powerpc or powerpc64, we need to include ld.so with debug
> symbols by default. Otherwise valgrind will not work at all. This
> seems like a reasonable thing to do for these two arches.

I think the RRECOMMENDS on ppc only is therefore the right solution for
now. 

There is perhaps a case here for splitting out the ld.so -dbg from the
rest of libc so the installation requirements aren't so large.

Cheers,

Richard