[OE-core] [PATCH 20/22] pkgconfig: Add a manual dependency of pkgconfig(pkg-config)

[Mark Hatle]

On 12/6/12 7:16 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 December 2012 11:14:52 Mark Hatle wrote:
>> The libtelepathy-glib-dev package contains a .pc file that has a requires
>> of pkgconfig(pkg-config) > 0.21 in it.  In order to satisfy this requirement
>> we add a manual RPROVIDE to the pkgconfig package.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
>> ---
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc     |    5 +++++
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_0.25.bb |    2 +-
>>   meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb  |    1 +
>>   3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
>> b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc index 83a9cdf..27d4071
>> 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
>> @@ -37,3 +37,8 @@ BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
>>   # files.
>>   FILES_${PN}-dev = ""
>>   FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/aclocal/pkg.m4"
>> +
>> +# When using the RPM generated automatic package dependencies, some
>> packages +# will end up requiring 'pkgconfig(pkg-config)'.  Allow this
>> behavior by +# specifying an appropriate provide.
>> +RPROVIDES_${PN} += "pkgconfig(pkg-config) (= ${PV})"
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_0.25.bb
>> b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_0.25.bb index 1e60c54..d0a2b1f
>> 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_0.25.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_0.25.bb
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>   require pkgconfig.inc
>>
>> -PR = "r5"
>> +PR = "r6"
>>
>>   SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a3270bab3f4b69b7dc6dbdacbcae9745"
>>   SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
>> "3ba691ee2431f32ccb8efa131e59bf23e37f122dc66791309023ca6dcefcd10e" diff
>> --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb
>> b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb index 6271992..d5ec8fc
>> 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig_git.bb
>> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git/"
>>
>>   SRCREV = "66d49f1375fec838bcd301bb4ca2ef76cee0e47c"
>>   PV = "0.23+git${SRCPV}"
>> +PR = "r1"
>>
>>   DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
>
> Because this tends to come in via file dependencies generated during
> do_package, a package for pkgconfig won't be forced to be built; so if nothing
> else depends upon pkgconfig then you can get a failure during do_rootfs (as I
> have here building core-image-lsb with DISTRO = "poky-lsb" from scratch with
> these changes on top of master):
>
> | Note: to be installed:  psplash at i586 packagegroup-core-basic at all
> | packagegroup-core-ssh-openssh at all packagegroup-core-lsb at all
> | packagegroup-base-extended at qemux86 packagegroup-core-boot at qemux86
> | locale-base-en-us at i586 locale-base-en-gb at i586
> | Loading cache...
> | Updating cache...               ########################################
> [100%]
> |
> | Computing transaction...error: Can't install libz-dev-1.2.7-r0 at i586:
> | no package provides pkgconfig
>
> I'm not quite sure what the best fix for that is though.

It would be nice if something asks for the feature dev-pkgs that it would add 
things like libtool, pkgconfig, etc and make the packages available in the 
build.  I must have been lucky with the sato build where I found this to already 
have pkgconfig around already.

--Mark

> Cheers,
> Paul
>