[OE-core] About PACKAGECONFIG audit

[wenzong fan]

On 08/20/2013 04:46 AM, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> Add Joe Slater who owns US17463: PACKAGECONFIG clean-up.
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> On 13-08-15 05:29 AM, wenzong fan wrote:
>> Hi All,
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>> We have seen some problems like this:
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>> $ 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:
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>> 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

No, I mean some check steps that if PACKAGECONFIG should be used, not 
limit to the script.

Thanks
Wenzong

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> // Randy
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>> Thanks
>> Wenzong
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