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

[Tom Rini]

On 07/15/2011 08:08 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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).

Here's a fun one, I've got the magic done, I think, but I can't test
since there's no hg:// URIs in the metadata atm :)

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Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation