[OE-core] [PATCH] curl: disable C source code generator

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:34 AM Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:07 AM Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> The --libcurl command line option causes curl to generate C source
> >> code which, when compiled and linked with libcurl, creates a binary
> >> which behaves in the same way as curl when run with the other options
> >> passed on the curl command line.
> >>
> >>   https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--libcurl
> >>
> >> It's a development tool and not generally useful on the target,
> >> especially if the target doesn't contain a toolchain etc.
> >>
> >
> > probably better to have it controlled via packageconfig knob
>
> Really? Why?
>

We do have people building SDKs for SBCs which ship development
environments on targets and I believe
it does not hurt to use packageconfig. Do you see downsides ?

> >> Signed-off-by: Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.61.0.bb | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.61.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.61.0.bb
> >> index 03d627e..cc983fd 100644
> >> --- a/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.61.0.bb
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/curl/curl_7.61.0.bb
> >> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[verbose] = "--enable-verbose,--disable-verbose"
> >>  PACKAGECONFIG[zlib] = "--with-zlib=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/../,--without-zlib,zlib"
> >>
> >>  EXTRA_OECONF = " \
> >> +    --disable-libcurl-option \
> >>      --disable-ntlm-wb \
> >>      --enable-crypto-auth \
> >>      --with-ca-bundle=${sysconfdir}/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt \
> >> --
> >> 1.9.1
> >>
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