[yocto] unnecessary build of bzip2 when it's "required" for a dev host

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   more nitpicking pedantry, but i just noticed that on the quick start
> page, there is the standard list of what the developer must install
> beforehand:
>
> http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html#yp-resources
>
> and for both fedora and centos, the reader is instructed to install
> (among other things) bzip2. but i'm pretty sure bzip2 is compiled as
> part of the build tools as part of a standard build, no?
>
>   certainly, as part of my poky-based BBB, i can see
> tmp/work/x86_64-linux/bzip2-native/. not a big deal, of course, but
> apparently redundant. didn't bother checking if this is the case for
> anything else.

  whoops, should have mentioned that the same observation holds for
the first chapter of the reference manual, section 1.3.2, "Required
Packages for the Host Development System."

rday

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