[OE-core] Building hg/help2man not relying on them?

[Mark Hatle]

On 7/14/11 9:00 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> As I work on bringing jenkins up on my stripped down builder machines
> I've once again run into the "wait, I'm supposed to have installed...?"
> problem.  Can we switch to building help2man and mercurial rather than
> making the end user install them?  Perhaps some sort of test for if we
> find it, ASSUME_PROVIDED it, otherwise build it?
> 

The full sanity list is:

patch help2man diffstat texi2html makeinfo cvs svn bzip2 tar gzip gawk hg
chrpath wget cpio

Of the above, help2man, texi2html, hg, and chrpath seem to be the ones I usually
have to find or build myself.

If we can build those (or setup the assume_provide) that would make it much
easier for me....

--Mark