[oe-commits] Ross Burton : binconfig-disabled: write an message to stderr to help confused developers

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Module: openembedded-core.git
Branch: master-next
Commit: c38acd720b3f6ffbeb544063692eb471dada8593
URL:    http://git.openembedded.org/?p=openembedded-core.git&a=commit;h=c38acd720b3f6ffbeb544063692eb471dada8593

Author: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 18 17:31:26 2015 +0100

binconfig-disabled: write an message to stderr to help confused developers

Often configure scripts or Makefiles that use the stub scripts written by
binconfig-disabled fail mysteriously with no obvious problem.  Attempt to solve
this by writing an error to stderr which hopefully makes it to the logs.

[ YOCTO #8169 ]

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com>

---

 meta/classes/binconfig-disabled.bbclass | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/classes/binconfig-disabled.bbclass b/meta/classes/binconfig-disabled.bbclass
index 595cd09..602a669 100644
--- a/meta/classes/binconfig-disabled.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/binconfig-disabled.bbclass
@@ -9,9 +9,10 @@ FILES_${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/*-config"
 
 do_install_append () {
 	for x in ${BINCONFIG}; do
-		echo "#!/bin/sh" > ${D}$x
 		# Make the disabled script emit invalid parameters for those configure
 		# scripts which call it without checking the return code.
+		echo "#!/bin/sh" > ${D}$x
+		echo "echo 'ERROR: $x should not be used, use an alternative such as pkg-config' >&2" >> ${D}$x
 		echo "echo '--should-not-have-used-$x'" >> ${D}$x
 		echo "exit 1" >> ${D}$x
 	done