Hello,
On 5/8/26 23:40, Joao Marcos Costa via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
Hello,
Honestly, my main motivation to send this series comes from a time when
I was building u-boot (meta-freescale) and I saw vim-native in Bitbake's
tasks. It blew my mind that a bootloader somehow dependend on a text
editor (yes, only to be built, not to be executed, I know), and the whole
text editor was being built to provide nothing more than xxd.
Just to be clear, what bothers me is NOT u-boot depending on xxd. It is
actually configuring and compiling Vim (considering the overhead this
represents) only to use a single tiny piece of it.
As for the tests I performed:
- machine: qemuriscv64
- toolchains: clang and gcc
- classes (xxd, vim-xxd): target, native, nativesdk
- classes (vim): target, native, nativesdk
Everything built fine, and the core-image-minimal running with qemu also
correctly shipped vim and xxd, which executed fine as well.
Best regards,
João Marcos Costa (4):
vim: introduce vim-sources.inc file
vim-xxd: introduce new recipe for xxd
vim: drop references to xxd in base recipe
vim.inc: remove xxd from the destination directory
meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc | 1 +
meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-sources.inc | 16 +++++++++++++
meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-xxd_9.2.bb | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
meta/recipes-support/vim/vim.inc | 21 ++++-------------
meta/recipes-support/vim/vim_9.2.bb | 10 --------
5 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-sources.inc
create mode 100644 meta/recipes-support/vim/vim-xxd_9.2.bb
Would there be any more feedbacks on this series? So far, I have been
considering to prepare a v2 to fix the License issue mentioned by Ross,
and also wiping out the source code of vim in vim-xxd_9.2.bb (leaving
only xxd's code, of course). This step would significantly reduce the
risk of xxd being affected by Vim's CVEs.
However, I prefer not investing my time on it if this split is not
seriously considered in the first place.
Thanks!
--
Best regards,
João Marcos Costa
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