[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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