2010/9/12 Philip Balister <[email protected]>: > On 09/12/2010 06:36 AM, Richard Purdie wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 11:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 17:24 +0800, Holger Freyther wrote: >>>> >>>> The insmod.static binary links statically and requires the libc.a >>>> to be present. On Fedora glibc-static is not installed by default >>>> when installing development headers. Warn the user that he needs >>>> to have that installed. >>> >>> Why are we building insmod.static for native anyway? That seems a bit >>> silly. >> >> It is. FWIW, Poky now patches the modutils-cross recipe so it only >> builds the dynamically linked version to resolve exactly this issue. > > I'd rather just have insane check for glibc-static and not have an extra > patch we need to carry around. I know everytime I install OE on a Fedora > based machine, I spend a few minutes remembering why modutils-native does > not build.
I guess you mean modutils-cross. There is no modutils-native recipe and the modutils one does not have BBCLASSEXTEND = "native" > > Having a reminder to install glibc-static if needed would really help the > new user experience for people using Fedora. I'd like to see Holger's change > go in. > > Philip A patch does not seem to be needed >From modutils configure --help --disable-insmod-static Do not create insmod.static binary (default) Btw this is from modutils-cross-2.4.27-r9 (and ofc is the usage is not correct and the flag is not the default behaviour it can easily be added in the conf flags) Have fun! Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
