[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Suppress Texinfo utilities invoked at build time for -cross & -native recipes

[Saul Wold]

Max,

we has a failure on the Autobuilder when attempting to build the world 
build.

This has some texinfo related failures, please check them out.

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/main/builders/nightly-world/builds/95/steps/BuildImages/logs/stdio

Thanks

Sau!

On 05/14/2014 02:35 PM, Max Eliaser wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> As per discussion with Richard Purdie and others, I'm submitting a patch to
> suppress some unnecessary invocations of utilities from the Texinfo suite during
> Yocto builds. Specifically, it targets -native and -cross recipes that inherit
> texinfo.bbclass.
>
> The Texinfo utilities are suppressed by supplying doppelgänger executables which
> understand the same command-line options as the genuine Texinfo utilites, and
> which can create blank output files where expected, but which do no actual
> processing, formatting, or markup. To see how this is done, look in the
> texinfo-dummy-native recipe (under meta/recipes-extended,) added in this patch
> series, as well as the modifications to texinfo.bbclass, also in this patch
> series.
>
> Suppressing the Texinfo utilities for -native and -cross recipes does provide a
> noticable performance gain, as documented in bug 2421. [1] You could make the
> case that this patch series still does not completely address bug 2421, as there
> are other utilities not from the Texinfo suite (groff, pod2man, etc) which are
> not suppressed by these changes.
>
> Target-architecture recipes continue to use the host system's Texinfo utilities
> as before, so that dependency is not eliminated by this patch series.
>
> Regards,
> -Max Eliaser
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2421
> The following changes since commit 7b78c364b7de901f97cd8dbe56d5e02f545bf3d3:
>
>    cleanup-workdir: Fix crosssdk reference after addition of PN (2014-05-05 09:05:42 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>    git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib meliaser/texinfo-build
>    http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=meliaser/texinfo-build
>
> Max Eliaser (3):
>    Allow texinfo, texinfo-native recipes to build w/o host system's
>      Texinfo utils
>    Add texinfo-dummy-native recipe w/ scripts to stand in for Texinfo
>      utils.
>    native/cross recipes use texinfo-dummy-native; target arch use host's
>      Texinfo.
>
>   meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass                       |  15 ++-
>   meta/conf/bitbake.conf                             |   1 +
>   .../texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy-native.bb   |  30 +++++
>   .../texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy/COPYING     |  19 ++++
>   .../texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy/template.py | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++
>   .../texinfo/texinfo/disable-native-tools.patch     |  43 --------
>   .../texinfo/texinfo/use_host_makedoc.patch         |  17 ---
>   meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo_5.2.bb       |   8 +-
>   8 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy-native.bb
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy/COPYING
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/texinfo-dummy-native/texinfo-dummy/template.py
>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/disable-native-tools.patch
>   delete mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo/use_host_makedoc.patch
>