[OE-core] [PATCH 1/5] qt4: allow a reduction in build time

[Anders Darander]

* Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> [110817 16:09]:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 15:57 +0200, Anders Darander wrote:
> > When reducing build time by adding QT_DISTRO_FLAGS from the set '-no-gui -nomake tools
> > -nomake examples -nomake demos -nomake docs', build failure can occur, due to not building
> > all tools.
> > 
> > * Make rm not error out when removing one of the, possibly, non-existing tools.
> > * Only try to rename qtdemo, if qtdemo exists.
> > * Guard do_split_packages() with an try-except-clause, otherwise we get an error stating
> >   that .../phrasebooks/... do not exist.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Darander <anders at chargestorm.se>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc |   13 ++++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
> > index 0410a92..994ec12 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4.inc
> > @@ -227,7 +227,10 @@ python populate_packages_prepend() {
> >   
> >          phrasebook_dir = bb.data.expand('${datadir}/${QT_DIR_NAME}/phrasebooks/', d)
> >          phrasebook_name = bb.data.expand('${QT_BASE_NAME}-phrasebook-%s', d)
> > -        do_split_packages(d, phrasebook_dir, '^(.*)\.qph$', phrasebook_name, '${PN} phrasebook for %s', extra_depends='' )
> > +        try:
> > +                do_split_packages(d, phrasebook_dir, '^(.*)\.qph$', phrasebook_name, '${PN} phrasebook for %s', extra_depends='' )
> > +        except:
> > +                pass

> Please use some actual test here, not a general try/except/pass. This
> reason is that is some failure we want to know about happens, this will
> hide it as the code stands.

Yes, that's right. Initially I had a plan to get some ideas on how to
tackle this, but I think I've got a good test outlined. Hopefully I can
implement and test it tonight, otherwise I'll do it tomorrow.

Cheers,
Anders

-- 
Anders Darander
ChargeStorm AB