[OE-core] pam related dependency processing bug?

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:31:31PM -0700, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> 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 :)

See
openembedded-core/scripts/test-dependencies.sh

but it can detect only dependencies which cause build to fail or
autodetected dependencies which result in extra library being linked
from some binary in the tested package.

> 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})
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Janne
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