image-mklibs.bbclass: add the library optimization functionality

If you want to enable the mklibs library size optimization for your image
then, edit the MKLIBS_OPTIMIZED_IMAGES line in the local.conf like this:

  MKLIBS_OPTIMIZED_IMAGES ?= "poky-image-minimal your-own-image"

Also this will enable the mklibs library size optimization for all images.

  MKLIBS_OPTIMIZED_IMAGES ?= "all"

on qemux86 machine this reduced the rootfs size of poky image-minimal
image from 7.9MB to 7.2MB. That is around 11% image foot print reduction.
That image had 38 elf executables. Generally the size optimization by
mklibs is reversely proportional to the number of elf executables in the
rootfs. So bigger images will see less optimization, and smaller images
will see large image size reductions.

Thanks to mark hatle for his help in implementation of this.

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
index d9f7098f0c..d61aaebdd0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -73,10 +73,20 @@ EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_mx31ads = "tools-testapps debug-tweaks"
 #PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_deb package_ipk"
 PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm package_ipk"
 
+# mklibs library size optimization is more useful to smaller images, 
+# and less useful for bigger images. Also mklibs library optimization can break the ABI compatibility, so should not be applied to the images which are tobe
+# extended or upgraded later.
+#This enabled mklibs library size optimization just for the specified image.
+#MKLIBS_OPTIMIZED_IMAGES ?= "poky-image-minimal"
+#This enable mklibs library size optimization will be for all the images.
+#MKLIBS_OPTIMIZED_IMAGES ?= "all"
+
 # A list of additional classes to use when building the system
+# include 'image-mklibs' to reduce shared library files size for an image
 # include 'image-prelink' in order to prelink the filesystem image
 # include 'image-swab' to perform host system intrusion detection
-USER_CLASSES ?= "image-prelink"
+# NOTE: if listing mklibs & prelink both, then make sure mklibs is before prelink
+USER_CLASSES ?= "image-mklibs image-prelink"
 
 # POKYMODE controls the characteristics of the generated packages/images by
 # telling poky which type of toolchain to use.