[OE-core] [PATCH/RFC] autotools: handle dependency on intltool-native

[Eric Bénard]

Le Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:24:17 +0100,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> a écrit :

> On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 10:06 +0200, Eric Bénard wrote:
> > autotools' class can use intltoolize but has no dependency on it
> > which can leads to :
> > /test/setup-scripts/build/tmp-defaultsetup-eglibc-eglibc/work/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-oe-linux-gnueabi/gnokii/0.6.31-r0/temp/run.do_configure.7559: line 179: intltoolize: command not found
> > 
> > This patch fix this problem by adding the dependency on
> > intltool-native which can be tricky as it triggers
> > circular dependencies very easily.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/classes/autotools.bbclass | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> > index 883eb06..eb988cb 100644
> > --- a/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> > +++ b/meta/classes/autotools.bbclass
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ def autotools_dep_prepend(d):
> >                          and not bb.data.inherits_class('cross', d) \
> >                          and not d.getVar('INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS', True):
> >              deps += 'libtool-cross '
> > +            deps += 'intltool-native '
> >  
> >      return deps + 'gnu-config-native '
> 
> Its expected that recipes using that add to DEPENDS. Please lets not add
> in the dependency for everyone since it isn't actually used in that many
> places. Its small details like this which end up causing significant
> performance issues :/.
> 
OK agreed. Would you accept a patch to add this in comment in
autotools.bbclass so that this gets documented somewhere ?

Eric