[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/7] Developer workflow improvements

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 11 December 2014 18:10:57 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> I think *this* thread (and question) got lost in the shuffle...
> 
> On 12/09/14 10:47, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > On 12/02/14 09:01, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >> On Monday 01 December 2014 23:54:03 Trevor Woerner wrote:
> >>> On 11/25/14 12:28, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> >>>> I've then added a new recipe auto-creation script, recipetool, which
> >>>> can
> >>>> take a source tree or URL and create a skeleton recipe to build it.
> >>> 
> >>> ...
> >>> 
> >>>>  * "recipetool create" ideally needs to become smarter and fill in
> >>>>  
> >>>>    more details of the recipe. At some point we'll probably have to
> >>>>    make the process interactive and possibly have it automate parts of
> >>>>    the build process and examine the output; some things just can't be
> >>>>    practically detected from the source tree without building.
> >>> 
> >>> There is a tool "autoscan" which might be of some use here. If nothing
> >>> else, the resulting configure.scan file could be parsed for DEPENDS
> >>> information and perhaps PACKAGECONFIG items too.
> >> 
> >> Interesting - I was not aware of this tool. I've added support for
> >> running it as well as picking converting AC_CHECK_LIB lines over to
> >> DEPENDS (with a note about some of them possibly being optional).
> >> Thanks!
> > 
> > Finding "AC_PATH_X" in "configure.scan" is probably a good indication
> > there's an RDEPENDS on "libx11". Maybe "recipetool" could check for that?
> 
> *ping*!!

I hadn't missed this, I just hadn't got around to looking at it ;)
 
> Oddly enough, the default recipe even says:
> 
>     # NOTE: the following library dependencies are unknown, ignoring: X11
> 
> 
> Why is it ignoring x11? Coincidentally the code I'm testing this with
> has a dependency on X11 and when I try building, bitbake throws out an
> RDEPENDS warning.

It's ignoring anything that the extremely naive and incomplete mapping that I 
initially added doesn't currently handle. It'll need to be extended, and X11 
would obviously be something we should add straight away. I've added a general 
task to expand the mapping to the todo list. FYI we are tracking more fine-
grained tasks than are covered in bugzilla in the following wiki pages 
(especially since this is currently being worked on in a separate branch):

 https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Developer_Workflow_Improvements 

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre