[OE-core] [PATCH 3/6] libepoxy: DEPENDS on virtual/mesa

[Andreas Müller]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
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> On 15 April 2015 at 18:27, Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Patch [1]: util-macros no more required in DEPENDS
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> What's the point of this?  util-macros adds functionality and doesn't depend
> on X in any way, it's just some m4 macros.
reduces DEPENDENCIES slightly - but is not mandatory. I have added it
because there is only a mac specific option the macros are used for.
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>> Patch [2]: allow build for x-less environments
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> I'm glad this demonstrates that simply disabling GLX works but FWIW I
> wouldn't accept this into oe-core as it's not deterministic.
I didn't do that for limited time and had no problem because I never
change DISTRO features for one builddir. To fix configure.ac needs an
additional configure option disabling xorg even if it was build.
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>> I don't have time to prepare patches, but maybe somebody wants to take a
>> look.
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>> Ahh before I forget: libepoxy should inherit pythonnative - all source
>> file creation is done by pythonscripts.
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> Isn't pythonnative only required if the Python needs to use modules that
> were previously built natively?  Bitbake is Python so if it's just "run this
> bit of basic python code" then the host Python is sufficient.
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Might be but as far as I can remember - this was added due to
configure failures for builds from scratch - but it is long ago...

Andreas