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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Aug 28 11:11:22 UTC 2014


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.

Thanks!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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