I hit this issue experimenting with disabling ipv6, as Todd did originally,
with an odd error about not being able to build the native sdk.
It's not a problem for me but is there a recommended way for disabling a libc
distro feature like ipv6 without creating a whole new distro? Does libc really
require ipv6? I can see it's the features in DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC that are
critical.
For the purposes of this experiment I added to local.conf to get it
working:DISTRO_FEATURES_remove = "ipv6"DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC_remove = "ipv6"
But I expect I will create a new distro at some point.
Cheers,Chris
On Tuesday 27 October 2015 08:45:26 Burton, Ross wrote:> On 26 October 2015 at
20:16, Todd Efflam <todd.efflam at gmail.com> wrote:> > Thanks for the tip. We
tried adding this to the local.conf file but> > it failed with the following
error:> > ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'glibc'> > ERROR: glibc was skipped: missing
required distro feature 'ipv6' (not> > in DISTRO_FEATURES)> > Ouch. That's
surely not right.> > The commit that introduced this was:> > commit
97899bc908a421295d814801ff86edeb9304d2fd> Author: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen at
windriver.com>> Date: Thu Jul 3 11:23:42 2014 +0800> > eglibc: check for
required distro features> > If users accidently override the
DISTRO_FEATURES in local.conf,> then build failures occur for lack of libc
functions.> > All features in DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC should be in
DISTRO_FEATURES.> That's why this patch let the recipe inherit
distro_features_check> class and set REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES to
"${DISTRO_FEATURES_LIBC}".> > [YOCTO #6381]> > But the entire point of the
logic in glibc-options is to make these> options, well, optional.> > It looks
like the required_distro_features use in eglibc is misguided. Can> you comment
out the REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES assignment in glibc.inc and> verify that it
then builds fine without ipv6 enabled?
Ah yes, I meant to get back to this at some point as I didn't really like how
this was fixed previously either (see
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6381 for details of the
problem). It seems to me that we should:
1) Fix the glibc recipes so that they handle an empty libc configuration or
error out much earlier with a sensible message if that's not possible
2) Properly detect when DISTRO_FEATURES has been "zapped" via += in local.conf
or elsewhere and show an error/warning about that.
Cheers,Paul
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