[OE-core] EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD

[Slater, Joseph]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openembedded-core-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-core-
> bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Richard Purdie
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07 PM
> To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD
> 
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 18:45 +0000, Slater, Joseph wrote:
> > Could somebody clarify excluding things from world?  I see
> > EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1" in
> >
> > many places, including libx11.inc, and I'm sure there's plenty of
> > libx11 stuff in world.
> 
> The issue is that there are multiple providers of libx11 and when you
> bitbake world, we don't want them all to build. For that reason it gets
> excluded and then the correct version will get built as needed.
> 
> There are plans afoot to merge those different libx11 recipes at which
> point the exclude from world will get dropped.
> 
> > I also see package specific exclusions in world-broken.inc.
> 
> This was originally a list of known problematic packages and used to be
> quite large. Looking at the list:
> 
> gobject-introspection: Totally broken recipe, I'm tempted to delete it.
> eds-tools: Again, I'm tempted to delete the recipe
> clutter-box2d: This should build, not sure why its on the broken list.

Thanks for the clarifications.  I would think that there would be packages
that you'd want to exclude conditionally.  Like i-only-build-for-x86.bb would
not be part of world for ppc builds.  Maybe such packages just cannot ever
be in world, or maybe we do something where EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD gets computed
from, say, MACHINE_FEATURES?

Joe

> 
> Chris replied about the other bits...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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