python3: RDEPEND on libgcc

Python uses features of glibc that require it to dynamically load (i.e.
dlopen()) libgcc_s at runtime. However, since this isn't a link time
dependency, it doesn't get picked up automatically by bitbake so
manually add it to RDEPENDS.

There is an outstanding bug in Python to make it explicitly link against
libgcc at link time which would remove the need for this. See:
https://bugs.python.org/issue37395

Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808@gmail.com>
[ merged the fix to make it glibc only ]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.7.6.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.7.6.bb
index 7a569f9ca7ec9f3175ed0a0f7e97da01c673b722..3efd3bcac822d141985471b3d0baf62ac7284c1b 100644 (file)
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.7.6.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.7.6.bb
@@ -308,6 +308,8 @@ FILES_${PN}-misc = "${libdir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN} ${libdir}/python${PYTHON_MA
 PACKAGES += "${PN}-man"
 FILES_${PN}-man = "${datadir}/man"
 
+# See https://bugs.python.org/issue18748 and https://bugs.python.org/issue37395
+RDEPENDS_libpython3_append_libc-glibc = " libgcc"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "${PN}-modules ${PN}-tests unzip bzip2 libgcc tzdata-europe coreutils sed"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " locale-base-tr-tr.iso-8859-9"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}-tkinter += "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'tk', 'tk tk-lib', '', d)}"