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

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 21:56 -0500, Mark Hatle wrote:
> 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.

Originally I built chrpath when I added relocatable.bbclass but then we
wanted to relocate native packages and it got extremely tricky...

Joshua
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Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre