Re: integrating dtc into the sim/ tree

Mike Frysinger
2014-08-20T09:33:20Z

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On Tue 19 Aug 2014 08:25:57 Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > so i guess that leaves us with linking against a system copy. i'm fine
> > with that too. thoughts ?
>
> Do I understand correctly that this is the status quo?

gdb links against system libs which the FSF has no control over:
- python
- xz-utils (lzma)
- expat
- zlib

this last one is also included directly in the gcc tree (also the sourceware
tree in the past iirc)

gcc links to non-FSF 3rd party libs, albeit doesn't bundle them

so after talking to myself, i guess the issue isn't so much with using the
system copy of dtc as it is with making it a hard requirement (which is
different from how the other packages use 3rd party libs -- they're all
optional). might be able to reduce the requirement so only the hw layers hard
depend on it, but i'm not sure if even that is possible.
-mike

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