[OE-core] [PATCH 0/2] Split glibc and libcrypt

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 08:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> this series is ok. Although dont like the fact its not upstream yet
>> but it reduces glibc baggage for future.
>
> Were you able to find out if glibc will definitely do this?
>

I have started a disucussion.

> I think applying this nativesdk is the only thing we can do right now
> and it does set us up well to migrate this further if glibc do go for
> this. After thinking about this a bit, the patch series needs a few
> minor tweaks to avoid wider testing failures:
>
> a) libxcrypt needs to SkipRecipe in the target case and be nativesdk
>    only
> b) We need an RDEPENDS_${PN}_append_class-nativesdk = " libxcrypto" in
>    glibc-package.inc
> c) The override used in glibc-pacjage.inc is wrong suggesting the code
>    can be dropped.

I think we should apply it for target case too. It will keep things
simple. We are
not losing functionality as we have libxcrypt

>
> Good news is a few of us tested this on f28, f27, ubuntu 1604 and 1710
> and the new uninative built with it seems to work well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard