[OE-core] simple dependency question

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   i realize that "DEPENDS" represents build-time dependencies, as in
> ... all of the DEPENDS recipes must build *completely* before this
> recipe can *begin* to build, is that correct?
>
>   however, in something like module.bbclass where one finds:
>
> do_make_scripts[deptask] = "do_populate_sysroot"
>
> does that now *override* the normal build-time dependency to say only
> that this recipe's do_make_scripts task need only wait until all of
> the "DEPENDS" recipes have completed their do_populate_sysroot tasks?
>
>   in other words, the instant i define an inter-task dependency, does
> that relax the normal strong build dependency? since, if it didn't,
> this wouldn't make any sense.

  sorry, i shouldn't have described that as an "inter-task"
dependency, i realize that's different, as in:

ncurses.inc:do_test[depends] = "unifdef-native:do_populate_sysroot"

rday

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