[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] coreutils: build and install hostname

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Tue Nov 29 08:15:45 UTC 2011


On 11/24/2011 02:08 AM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> busybox's hostname doesn't work with pseudo somehow, so let's use the version
> of coreutils. This is needed for the self-hosted-image work.
>
> Also add a patch to disable building the doc and manual: we don't really need
> them and this causes compilation error in the cross-compiling case.
>
Upon further review and thoughts about this, it's not idea to remove 
docs and manual's, I will take this patch for now, but we need to file a 
bug and find a better solution that will re-enable the docs and manual 
creation.

Sau!

> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui<dexuan.cui at intel.com>
> ---
>   .../coreutils/coreutils-8.14/disable_doc_man.patch |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb      |    9 +++--
>   2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/disable_doc_man.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/disable_doc_man.patch b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/disable_doc_man.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..c9dc92c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils-8.14/disable_doc_man.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
> +Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [embedded specific]
> +
> +We don't really need to build the doc and manual.
> +
> +Morever, we get this failure in do_compile:
> +help2man: can't get `--help' info from hostname.td/hostname
> +
> +This is because help2man tries to invoke "hostname --help", but in the
> +cross-compile case, the target binary may not be execuable on the host.
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui<dexuan.cui at intel.com>
> +
> +diff -Nru coreutils-8.14/Makefile.am coreutils-8.14/Makefile.am
> +--- coreutils-8.14.orig/Makefile.am	2011-10-10 15:30:55.000000000 +0800
> ++++ coreutils-8.14/Makefile.am	2011-11-24 17:29:26.398593744 +0800
> +@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> +
> + ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS =
> +
> +-SUBDIRS = lib src doc man po tests gnulib-tests
> ++SUBDIRS = lib src po tests gnulib-tests
> +
> + changelog_etc =				\
> +   ChangeLog-2005			\
> +diff -Nru coreutils-8.14.orig/Makefile.in coreutils-8.14/Makefile.in
> +--- coreutils-8.14.orig/Makefile.in	2011-10-12 17:21:46.000000000 +0800
> ++++ coreutils-8.14/Makefile.in	2011-11-24 17:29:14.868593748 +0800
> +@@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@
> +
> + # Some tests always need root privileges, others need them only sometimes.
> + ALL_RECURSIVE_TARGETS = install-root check-root distcheck-hook
> +-SUBDIRS = lib src doc man po tests gnulib-tests
> ++SUBDIRS = lib src po tests gnulib-tests
> + changelog_etc = \
> +   ChangeLog-2005			\
> +   ChangeLog-2006			\
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb
> index 01face0..ec41fe2 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/coreutils/coreutils_8.14.bb
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ BUGTRACKER = "http://debbugs.gnu.org/coreutils"
>   LICENSE = "GPLv3+"
>   LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504\
>                       file://src/ls.c;startline=5;endline=16;md5=e1a509558876db58fb6667ba140137ad"
> -PR = "r1"
> +PR = "r2"
>   DEPENDS = "gmp"
>   DEPENDS_virtclass-native = ""
>
> @@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ inherit autotools gettext
>
>   SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/coreutils/${BP}.tar.xz \
>              file://remove-usr-local-lib-from-m4.patch \
> +           file://disable_doc_man.patch \
>             "
>   SRC_URI[md5sum] = "bcb135ce553493a45aba01b39eb3920a"
>   SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0d120817c19292edb19e92ae6b8eac9020e03d51e0af9cb116cf82b65d18b02d"
>
> +EXTRA_OECONF += "--enable-install-program=hostname"
> +
>   EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native = "--without-gmp"
>
>   # [ gets a special treatment and is not included in this
> @@ -29,9 +32,8 @@ bindir_progs = "base64 basename chcon cksum comm csplit cut dir dircolors dirnam
>                   sha384sum sha512sum shred shuf sort split stat stdbuf sum tac tail tee test timeout\
>                   tr truncate tsort tty unexpand uniq unlink uptime users vdir wc who whoami yes df"
>
> -# hostname gets a special treatment and is not included in this
>   base_bindir_progs = "cat chgrp chmod chown cp date dd echo false kill ln ls mkdir \
> -                     mknod mv pwd rm rmdir sleep stty sync touch true uname"
> +                     mknod mv pwd rm rmdir sleep stty sync touch true uname hostname"
>
>   sbindir_progs= "chroot"
>
> @@ -71,7 +73,6 @@ pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
>   	for i in ${sbindir_progs}; do update-alternatives --remove $i $i.${PN}; done
>
>   	# The special cases
> -	update-alternatives --remove hostname hostname.${PN}
>   	update-alternatives --remove uptime uptime.${PN}
>   	update-alternatives --remove '[' 'lbracket.${PN}'
>   }




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