[gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[Ned Ludd]

A day or two ago I obsoleted the uclibc USE flag. 

It's been replaced by taking advantage of the ELIBC=uclibc in the 
profiles/uclibc/make.default which later gets automatically expanded in 
the ebuilds to "elibc_uclibc" by profiles/base/make.defaults USE_EXPAND

This method has the advantage that USE="-*" now works without breaking 
our dependency trees and we don't need to have uclibc listed in the
actual ebuilds IUSE= anymore.

The only downside is a cosmetic one. The name seems goofy as the 
'e' prefix has been used in the past for mostly portage related tools.
But we should get used to it in due time.

Anyway if anybody notices any problems with this change please let me 
know either via mail or bugzilla.

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 04:35 pm, Ned Ludd wrote:
> A day or two ago I obsoleted the uclibc USE flag.
>
> It's been replaced by taking advantage of the ELIBC=uclibc in the
> profiles/uclibc/make.default which later gets automatically expanded in
> the ebuilds to "elibc_uclibc" by profiles/base/make.defaults USE_EXPAND

a great step ... looking ahead, the next one is to try to minimize its usage 
as much as possible ... i think psm has shown a few places where it should 
really be `use nis` instead of `use elibc_uclibc`
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[René Rhéaume]

>From solar:
> It's been replaced by taking advantage of the ELIBC=uclibc in the
> profiles/uclibc/make.default which later gets automatically expanded in
> the ebuilds to "elibc_uclibc" by profiles/base/make.defaults USE_EXPAND
Are the two migration steps are
  1- remove uclibc from IUSE
  2- sed -i -e 's/use uclibc/use elibc_uclibc/g' ebuild-needing-care.ebuild
?

>From vapier:
> i think psm has shown a few places where it should
> really be `use nis` instead of `use elibc_uclibc`
Did you mean "use nls" (with the letter L) ?

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 06:39 pm, René Rhéaume wrote:
> Are the two migration steps are

users dont have to do anything

>   2- sed -i -e 's/use uclibc/use elibc_uclibc/g' ebuild-needing-care.ebuild
> ?

most of the time that will work, but you have to make sure you only change the 
use flag and not say a patch name
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] The uclibc USE flag is now obsolete.

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, René Rhéaume wrote:

> >From solar:
> > It's been replaced by taking advantage of the ELIBC=uclibc in the
> > profiles/uclibc/make.default which later gets automatically expanded in
> > the ebuilds to "elibc_uclibc" by profiles/base/make.defaults USE_EXPAND
> Are the two migration steps are
>   1- remove uclibc from IUSE
>   2- sed -i -e 's/use uclibc/use elibc_uclibc/g' ebuild-needing-care.ebuild
> ?
> 
> >From vapier:
> > i think psm has shown a few places where it should
> > really be `use nis` instead of `use elibc_uclibc`
> Did you mean "use nls" (with the letter L) ?

no, he (and myself) mean NIS (YP, yellow-pages), because that is not/ and 
won't be supported by uclibc. There are many pkgs that could make use of 
that flag, if all glibc profiles would get this auto-added (uclibc masks 
it since startup). The use flag itself exists, but noone cared to use it.

Base pkgs: python, pam, pwdb

Peter

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