[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: Add comm to HOSTTOOLS

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 01/30/2018 09:07 AM, Khem Raj wrote:

>> I disagree. Expanding HOSTTOOLS just to cater to the needs of a single 
>> recipe is not optimal, IMO.
> 
> alternative are
> build time dep on coreutils-native.
> fix uboot script to not use comm
> do not invoke check-config.sh at all.
> 
> none of them are any better.

Before we can declare that, we need to look what comm is actually used 
for during build, and why its absence is not a problem and doesn't cause 
errors.

Consider also that using comm from host may break reproducibility, if 
absence or presence of comm on the host results in a different output 
from the build.

Alex