On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Jussi Kukkonen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 August 2015 at 17:38, Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is alternative suggestion. I think all this is happening for >> nettle which we have GPLv2 version in core. There doesnt seem to be a >> full use of libgmp elsewhere. >> nettle can be built using mini-gmp, as well I think that route should >> be explored. That also keeps the us honest with our motive of moving >> all gplv2 legacy packages to layer of its own in future. > > Is it actually possible to build a working LGPL2 version of nettle with > mini-gmp? I did look at that option (and the "--with-mini-nettle" option for > gnutls) but couldn't figure it out. > > With our current nettle (2.7.1) the problems are > A) it doesn't actually have a "--enable-mini-gmp" option: only one test > binary seems use mini-gmp
yes I did not consider its old version of gmp > B) the gmp files that are included are actually LGPL3 (so even if we could > use them, it would not help the end goal much) Yes. Let merge it in. I would have preferred to call it gmp42 or something in recipe so it does not cause toolchain problems. but thats a combination of GPLv2 building toolchain for target with whitelisting gcc and binutils. > > - Jussi -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
