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Subject: Re: Why qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc ?
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On 03/20/2012 05:43 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 16:42:41 Robert Yang wrote:
>> I'm just curious that qemu-config RDPENDS on distcc:
>>
>> meta/recipes-bsp/qemu-config/qemu-config.bb:RDEPENDS_${PN} = "distcc ..."
>>
>> And there are 4 processes named "distcc" running after boot the target
>> with "runqemu qemux86".
>>
>> We have distcc on the target, but no gcc or g++, can we remove it from
>> qemu-config's RDEPENDS?
>
> I think the idea was that if you wanted to do compilation on the emulated
> target, having distcc would let you do it with much better performance. I
> agree it seems that it's not particularly useful if you're never going to do
> any compilation on the target though.
>

Thanks for your reply, so may I send a pull request to remove it from
qemu-config's RDPENDS?

// Robert

> Cheers,
> Paul
>