On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <[email protected]>: >>>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> yes a more detailed solution is better. you have to go through the >>>>>> configure of every >>>>>> package and understand the behavior then act upon. As I said before >>>>>> its a tedious task >>>>>> >>>>> I'm well aware of this. That is also why in the infrastructure thread >>>>> I suggested using automated testing to find misbehaving packages. >>>>> >>>>> Btw there are 355 .inc files that contain the word autotools and 1899 .bb >>>>> files. >>>>> Of course there are lots of dups in there. >>>>> And maybe for the base recipes we can convince the yocto people that >>>>> this is a serious QA issue (and they have some people employed to work >>>>> on this if I understood properly). >>>>> >>>> >>>> numbers means not so much when it comes down to this. I don't know if >>>> any distribution that even does that >>>> so I take comfort in everyone being wrong. >>>> >>> >>> I agree that numbers don't mean that much. Just wanted to give an >>> indication of the possible effort needed. >>> Also no idea how debian does this. >> >> Does it do it in first place ? > > I peeked briefly at the sources. > Debian seems to resolve the problem by going for the max dependencies > so autotools can pick up everything. > E.g. for gphoto2, lenny has a depends on both libexif and libreadline > (see http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gphoto2) > So basically they go for the max config. > > We could do the same. Then again for deeply embedded systems it might > be desirable to allow more finegrained tuning. > (did I hear someone say USE flags ? ) >
which is good for things that dont care about size. Not so good for embedded systems I think. and there are some packages I know which have catch-22 situation so adding max depends is also not a wholesome solution. > Enjoy! Frans > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
