[OE-core] pam related dependency processing bug?

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Wonder if you guys can share some insights on how to debug this case.
> I have a legacy PAM module recipe that says:
> 
> DEPENDS_${PN} = "libpam"
> 
> 'pam' is listed in DISTRO_FEATURES and is working fine. However, for
> that pam module libpam dependency is silently dropped during the
> build. If PAM happens to be compiled before that module, everything is
> fine, but if not, build fails on missing pam headers.
> 
> To make this interesting, 'bitbake -g -u depexp <module>' shows the
> libpam dependency in place - yet it clearly is not there during the
> build. Results are the same for both dizzy and daisy and host OS
> doesn't seem to make a difference either.

That's because
DEPENDS_${PN}
doesn't mean anything you should be using DEPENDS (only RDEPENDS,
RPROVIDES, RREPLACES, RCONFLICTS variables are package specific and end
with _<package-name> e.g. _${PN})

> 
> 
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> Janne
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