[OE-core] Incomplete runtime dependencies for gdb python PACKAGECONFIG

[Andreas Oberritter]

Hello Andre,

On 20.06.2015 05:00, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> The runtime dependencies for gdb seem to be incomplete when python
> support is enabled via gdb's PACKAGECONFIG.
> 
> gdb ends up with a runtime dependency on libpython, but not on python
> or any python modules, and gdb then fails to run:
> 
>   root at 7401:~# gdb

just curious, is this a BCM7401?

>   Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>   Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
>   Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
>   ImportError: No module named site
> 
> Manually installing python and all python modules seems to be a fix,
> but I haven't narrowed down which specific python modules are
> required.
> 
> The issue is a little more serious for anyone using meta-qt5, since
> meta-qt5 (fido and later) contains a .bbappend for gdb which enables
> the python PACKAGECONFIG by default:
> 
>   https://github.com/meta-qt5/meta-qt5/commit/9d17546d56b5e710a6420b482514202236f410e3
> 

Here's a patch for fido that I was going to submit after testing
with master, whenever that may be.

http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/commit/?h=obi/fido&id=5461b4a6db9b9429132952ce31d293550c945179

Feel free to adapt, test and submit.

Regards,
Andreas