Re: [PATCH 6/8] siteinfo: Move certain db entries to common-linux

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 07/25/2011 09:05 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 09:03 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 07/25/2011 09:00 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 09:28 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> +db_cv_path_ar=${db_cv_path_ar=/usr/bin/ar}
>>>> +db_cv_path_chmod=${db_cv_path_chmod=/bin/chmod}
>>>> +db_cv_path_cp=${db_cv_path_cp=/bin/cp}
>>>> +db_cv_path_ln=${db_cv_path_ln=/bin/ln}
>>>> +db_cv_path_mkdir=${db_cv_path_mkdir=/bin/mkdir}
>>>> +db_cv_path_ranlib=${db_cv_path_ranlib=/usr/bin/ranlib}
>>>> +db_cv_path_rm=${db_cv_path_rm=/bin/rm}
>>>> +db_cv_path_sh=${db_cv_path_sh=/bin/sh}
>>>> +db_cv_path_strip=${db_cv_path_strip=/usr/bin/strip}
>>>
>>> Those contain assumptions about ${bindir} and ${base_bindir} which are
>>> not necessarily valid.  I think db should probably be patched for those
>>> rather than putting them here,
>>
>> It's possible they simply aren't used anymore, if micro in oe.dev is
>> building / working with db.
> 
> Yeah, could be.  (I haven't checked recently but I don't recall any db
> breakage with micro in oe.dev.)  It does seem a bit weird that db would
> want to use things like "strip".

As an aside, db is one of the things that makes me want to finish this
re-sync round so I can wipe out all of the site files and try again.  As
I mention in the comments, we have a wrong and ignored bits for db since
it dates back to db3.

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation