[Starlingx-discuss] Build Layering and refactoring of repos

[Scott Little]

On 2019-07-17 12:28 p.m., Saul Wold wrote:
>>>
>>> 3) not sure if "compile" is right name the layer of packages (go, 
>>> python, rpm, and bash), does bash really belong here, I don't think 
>>> we depend on it for the build, do we ? Is there a specific 
>>> modification to bash that build specific?
>>
>> Virtually everything depends on bash directly or indirectly through 
>> other build tools.
>>
> But why can't we use the system provided bash rather then needing the 
> patched version, what specific patches are needed?  I don't then the 
> extra logging is the requirement here. 

I agreed our current patch should not alter how anything builds in any 
direct way.  However it does cause royal havoc on the build order.  It's 
presence as a buildable object creates many dependency loops.  Not only 
do a lot of packages depend on bash, bash alos depends on a lot of 
packages.  Build-pkgs can't determine a build order and must guess.  It 
wastes a lot of time trying to build packages in the wrong order, and 
failing, before it stumbles onto a good order.

Scott

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