[OE-core] [PATCH 2/2] strace: update to 4.8

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 19:18 +0800, Kang Kai wrote:
> On 2013年06月19日 16:13, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 13:34 +0800, Kai Kang wrote:
> >> Update strace to 4.8.
> >>
> >> * Update License file.
> >> * Remove the backport patches which are already in version 4.8.
> >> * Add file git-version-gen from git repo. Without this file configure
> >>    fails.
> >> * Add libaio and acl to PACKAGECONFIG for target package. Make libaio as a
> >>    dependency by default which could be covered easily.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Kai Kang <kai.kang at windriver.com>
> > [...]
> >
> >> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb
> >> new file mode 100644
> >> index 0000000..eb9f660
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/strace/strace_4.8.bb
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> >> +DESCRIPTION = "strace is a system call tracing tool."
> >> +HOMEPAGE = "http://strace.sourceforge.net"
> >> +SECTION = "console/utils"
> >> +LICENSE = "BSD"
> >> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=124500c21e856f0912df29295ba104c7"
> >> +PR = "r0"
> >> +
> >> +SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/strace/strace-${PV}.tar.xz \
> >> +           file://git-version-gen"
> >> +
> >> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c575ef43829586801f514fd91bfe7575"
> >> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f492291f07a7c805c07a8395cce1ea054a6401ad414f4cc12185672215e1d7f8"
> >> +inherit autotools
> >> +
> >> +PACKAGECONFIG_class-target ?= "libaio"
> >> +PACKAGECONFIG_class-target += "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'acl', 'acl', '', d)}"
> >> +
> >> +PACKAGECONFIG[libaio] = ",,libaio,"
> >> +PACKAGECONFIG[acl] = ",,acl,"
> > Are there not --enable/--disable type options we can pass into configure
> > here to ensure build are deterministic?
> 
> Configure just check headers, no such --enable/--disable  options.

Then we have a problem since something like:

bitbake acl
bitbake strace

will build strace with acl enabled even though its not set in
DISTRO_FEATURES and this means builds are not deterministic. We need to
fix that.

> > Please also send this with move detection enabled in git so we get a
> > diff rather than a file removal/addition correctly shown (-M option to
> > git format-patch for example).
> 
> It maybe changes too much that git doesn't take that as 'rename'.
> I will take 'git mv' as a seperate commit but that commit is not 
> buildable, I will say that in comment.

You can set to a different threshold with -M30 or similar...

Cheers,

Richard