[OE-core] bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Tue Jul 10 15:00:15 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had commandline
> stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer makes sense to
> continually build this when the system installed version is likely sufficient.
>
> This speeds up build since recipes no longer have to wait for git-native to build
> if they're fetched from a git:// SRC_URI.
>
> Also add git to the sanity checks and drop the no unneeded svn reference.

What about testing the host system for presence of certain things?
Then one could

1) yum/apt/etc install the needed items

or

2) Build it if it's not present

-M




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