[OE-core] pam related dependency processing bug?

[Janne Karhunen]

Hi,

Thanks, inherited that file and missed that - and my RPM legacy was
thinking that's about right.

How do you guys test people don't leak dependencies with global
DEPENDS? Even this must have been passing by accident quite a while :)


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Janne

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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