[OE-core] About PACKAGECONFIG audit

[Randy MacLeod]

Add Joe Slater who owns US17463: PACKAGECONFIG clean-up.


On 13-08-15 05:29 AM, wenzong fan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 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;
> 2) Run 'configure --help' on each package to spot all of the optional
> dependencies, and convert them into PACKAGECONFIG specs/or any other
> prompts.

We should try to automate or codify this step so that the output is
a list of oe-core package names.

> 3) Run #1, #2 as an audit script periodically.
>
> Or could we run this check as part of a QA build step?

Do you mean:
   scripts/test-dependencies.sh

// Randy

>
>
> Thanks
> Wenzong


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