On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > The issue is one of dependencies. We need chrpath/patchelf to relocate > things like {autoconf|automake|pkgconfig}-native. Native > patchelf/chrpath depend on those things to build so if we don't have it > in ASSUME_PROVIDED, we get circular dependencies. > > chrpath is widely available in most distros. Unfortunately patchelf is > not. We therefore can't easily put patchelf-native into > ASSUME_PROVIDED :( > > So the reason the above didn't merge hasn't really changed, much as I'd > also wish it had.
compared to last time now debian testing/ ubuntu utopic have added it as well. fedora,suse, gentoo and archlinux were never an issue. we can generate a dpkg for older debian-like distros may be ? is it worth the effort > > This does not stop us using patchelf for other things though (and I > believe we should). > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
