[OE-core] [OE-Core][PATCH] eglibc: Let eglibc-extra-nss-dev exist as empty package

[Khem Raj]

On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 20:18 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> eglibc-extra-nss-dev is a dependency for libc6-dev but
>> the package is empty and is not created as a result target
>> install of libc6-dev fails. This will create an empty package
>> 
>> [Yocto Bug #4168]
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc |    4 +++-
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>> index 88a00a4..ca0cc4c 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>> @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ python __anonymous () {
>> # Set this to zero if you don't want ldconfig in the output package
>> USE_LDCONFIG ?= "1"
>> 
>> -PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg catchsegv sln nscd ldd ${PN}-utils eglibc-thread-db ${PN}-pic libcidn libmemusage libsegfault ${PN}-pcprofile libsotruss ${PN} eglibc-extra-nss ${PN}-dev ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-doc"
>> +PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg catchsegv sln nscd ldd ${PN}-utils eglibc-thread-db ${PN}-pic libcidn libmemusage libsegfault ${PN}-pcprofile libsotruss ${PN} eglibc-extra-nss ${PN}-dev ${PN}-staticdev ${PN}-doc eglibc-extra-nss-dev"
>> +
>> +ALLOW_EMPTY_eglibc-extra-nss-dev  = "1"
> 
> As discussed in the bug, I think this is an issue with smart erroring on
> recommends which it shouldn't do. More investigation/discussion
> therefore needed as this patch just fixes one issue and there will be
> others.
> 

I agree. If its smart issue lets fix smart instead.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
>