[poky] eglibc configurability

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: poky-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:poky-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:44 AM
> To: Poky
> Subject: [poky] eglibc configurability
> 
> I often run small (slow) embedded systems with only a ramdisk
> based file system.  When I use Poky for this, one side effect
> is that some packages need to be "configured" on bootup, which
> in the case of a ramdisk based operation means every time.
> 
> I notice that the eglibc package brings in a couple of these
> which are problematic (mostly in how long they take to run)
> Looking at meta/conf/distro/include/poky-eglibc.inc:
> 
> LIBC_DEPENDENCIES = "libsegfault \
>                       eglibc \
>                       eglibc-dbg \
>                       eglibc-dev \
>                       eglibc-utils \
>                       eglibc-thread-db \
>                       eglibc-localedata-i18n \
>                       eglibc-gconv-ibm850 \
>                       eglibc-gconv-cp1252 \
>                       eglibc-gconv-iso8859-1 \
>                       eglibc-gconv-iso8859-15 \
>                       locale-base-en-us \
>                       locale-base-en-gb "
> 
> On my OMAP-L138 target, configuring locale-base-* takes
> a long time, upwards of 35 seconds each.
> 
> Are multiple locale-base packages really necessary?
> How could I best (in the Poky spirit) limit this?  In the
> minimum, I'd like to only have one locale, saving at least
> 35 seconds of boot time.
> 
> Ideas?  Comments?

Gary,
  Look at the LIMIT_BUILT_LOCALES variable in local.conf. I think that would give you what are you looking for. Also you can enable the mklibs optimizations for such images, which would save image size.


> 
> Thanks
> 
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