[OE-core] About PACKAGECONFIG audit

[Martin Jansa]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 06:14:48PM +0800, wenzong fan wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 05:44 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Hi Wenzong,
> >
> > On Thursday 15 August 2013 17:29:46 wenzong fan wrote:
> >> We have seen some problems like this:
> >>
> >> $ bitbake libcap
> >>
> >> ld: warning: libaudit.so.1, needed by .../lib64/libpam.so, not found
> >> .../lib64/libpam.so: undefined reference to `audit_open'
> >> .../lib64/libpam.so: undefined reference to `audit_close'
> >> ......
> >>
> >> The libaudit has been available and libpam build with it, after we run
> >> another build with sstate-cache and w/o libaudit, the error occurs. The
> >> solution in these cases is to use PACKAGECONFIG to lay out dependencies
> >> on optional packages and make them explicit. We need to run an audit and
> >> catch all of these issues.
> >>
> >> A probable ways maybe:
> >>
> >> 1) Run world build to generate the sysroots as much as possible;
> >
> > (See Ross's reply for a pointer to the new test-dependencies script)
> 
> That would be a good start point, I have run that script once, but looks 
> not any failure occurs.

I don't believe it, see "State of bitbake world" thread where I've sent
results from last 3 executions.

There is plenty of issues for everybody :)

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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