[Buildroot] [PATCH 4/4] libelf: Removes the package

Gregory CLEMENT gregory.clement at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 28 11:53:58 UTC 2014


Hi Thomas,

On 28/08/2014 13:11, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Gregory CLEMENT,
> 
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:47:10 +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
>> The elfutils package provides a more recent version of the
>> libelf. Some packages such as ltrace need this more recent
>> version. Having two packages providing the same library leads to some
>> conflicts or dependency problems. For instance at the end we had only
>> one libelf.a when the 2 packages were selected.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement at free-electrons.com>
>> ---
>>  package/Config.in                               |     1 -
>>  package/libelf/Config.in                        |     7 -
>>  package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch | 12361 ----------------------
>>  package/libelf/libelf.mk                        |    23 -
>>  4 files changed, 12392 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/Config.in
>>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf-0.8.10-Elf64-fixups.patch
>>  delete mode 100644 package/libelf/libelf.mk
> 
> When removing a package, the config option of the package should be
> moved to Config.in.legacy to allow the user to be warned that he is
> using a no longer available package.

Ok a new version is coming soon.


Thanks,

Gregory
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Gregory Clement, Free Electrons
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