Re: [PATCH] no-static-libs.inc: add gdb

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

On Tue, 2016-03-01 at 01:43 +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:30:17PM +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > No special configuration IIRC (will check tomorrow and send whole
> > config.log).
> > 
> > But it failed the same in my minimal chroot env with just oe-core
> > and on
> > Ubuntu jenkins slave doing bitbake world with many layers, here is
> > full log:
> > http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/38149/
> > 
> > and it shows --without-system-readline parameter.
> 
> It's caused by bbappend in meta-qt5
> 
> OE qemux86@ ~/build/oe-core $ cat meta-qt5/recipes
> -devtools/gdb/gdb_%.bbappend
> PACKAGECONFIG ??= "python"
> 
> But on the other hand does this change make more harm than confusing
> error for people who try to build without readline in PACKAGECONFIG?

I mainly wanted to understand what configuration caused this, which we
now understand/ I agree we should probably do something about the
error.

I do wonder what a gdb bbappend is doing in meta-qt5 though. I'd say
that is really "distro" configuration.

Cheers,

Richard