Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] binutils: add libopcodes package for perf

["Khem Raj" <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:38 PM Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com> wrote:
>
> Add a package for libopcodes, since, like libbfd, it is needed by
> perf. Without separate packages for these libraries, all of the
> binutil tools get added as well.
>

libopcodes is not an API that binutils publish for wider consumption,
its meant for internal components and
external components can use it from binutils itself knowing very well
that it will change with binutils and therefore
I would prefer to not separate it out into separate package like this
which can appear as if its an external API
that binutils will respect.

> Signed-off-by: Alan Perry <alanp@snowmoose.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.35.bb | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.35.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.35.bb
> index 2e645e1ed8..976e49765a 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.35.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/binutils/binutils_2.35.bb
> @@ -52,9 +52,11 @@ do_install_class-native () {
>         rmdir ${D}/${libdir}64 || :
>  }
>
> -# Split out libbfd-*.so so including perf doesn't include extra stuff
> -PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "libbfd"
> +# Split out libbfd-*.so and libopcodes-*.so so including perf doesn't include
> +# extra stuff
> +PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN += "libbfd libopcodes"
>  FILES_libbfd = "${libdir}/libbfd-*.so.* ${libdir}/libbfd-*.so"
> +FILES_libopcodes = "${libdir}/libopcodes-*.so.* ${libdir}/libopcodes-*.so"
>
>  SRC_URI_append_class-nativesdk =  " file://0003-binutils-nativesdk-Search-for-alternative-ld.so.conf.patch "
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
> 
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