[yocto] what is the long-term plan for YP and eglibc?

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Robert,

On Friday 01 August 2014 05:38:07 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   at the YP resources page for eglibc:
> 
> https://www.yoctoproject.org/tools-resources/projects/eglibc
> 
> one reads:
> 
> "The Yocto Project encourages interested parties to get involved with
> the EGLIBC project. More information is at http://eglibc.org."

That might now be out of date in view of upstream developments.

>   but following that link, one learns:
> 
> "EGLIBC is no longer developed and such goals are now being addressed
> directly in GLIBC."

The long-term (even medium-term) plan is to switch back to glibc. We do still 
rely on some of the functionality in eglibc that hasn't been incorporated back 
into glibc though, e.g. poky-tiny uses eglibc's fine-grained component 
selection, so it's not necessarily a straightforward switch. Mostly I think 
we're waiting on some of Khem's (and probably other folks) time to sort this 
out.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre