[OE-core] [PATCH] dtc: Provide libfdt

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 04:01:57PM +0930, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, at 14:35, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 12:42:11PM +0930, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> > > Applications are appearing that depend on parsing flattened devicetree
> > > in userspace on target devices, e.g. pdbg[1]. Mark dtc as providing
> > > libfdt so application recipes can depend on it.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://github.com/open-power/pdbg
> > 
> > Shouldn't runtime dependencies on dtc already be autogenerated in this 
> > case when you have dtc in DEPENDS?
> 
> "dtc" doesn't need to appear in depends for pdbg: "dtc-native" does for the
> purpose of building the devicetrees shipped with the application, but "dtc"
> doesn't and dtc(1) itself isn't required at runtime, rather we just need libfdt,
>...

How do you link with libfdt without the non-native dtc in DEPENDS?

> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Andrew

cu
Adrian

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