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

[Tom Rini]

On 07/15/2011 07:43 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> On 7/15/11 9:39 AM, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> I wonder if we can do something like pseudo and force chrpath to be built -very-
> early in the process.. and then have most things have an automatic requirement
> on chrpath-native...
> 
> (pseudo of course has the advantage it's NOT used for native packages...)
> 
> Is the native chrpath usage only in do_package [or later]?  If so, we could
> probably put a dependency on do_package of chrpath.. with the affect that
> chrpath would have to be built first...

IIRC, it's somewhere between really tricky and just not possible to
nicely shove chrpath-native as a dependency into the graph.  I'm going
to pause my siteinfo stuff shortly and take a stab at mercurial and
help2man since I know the recipes exist in oe.dev and this time around
I'll take a stab at adding stuff to ASSUME_PROVIDED if found (oe.dev
just has help2man-native in local.conf.sample).

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation