[OE-core] ASSUME_PROVIDED versus SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES versus "The Build Host Packages"

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:31:44 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 29 November 2016 at 10:47, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
> > one example i mentioned is that the YP guide does not list "sed" as a
> > build host requirement, but "sed-native" is in ASSUME_PROVIDED;
> > however, it's not listed in SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES. that seems
> > inconsistent.
> 
> It would be somewhat useful if there where a way to annotate in recipes
> what binary to check for on the host, so just doing
> ASSUME_PROVIDED=sed-native would look up in the sed recipe to check that
> "sed" exists on the host, so that SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES doesn't need to
> be maintained separately.
> 
> Very low hanging fruit though.  Patches welcome!

How would you get access to that recipe-space information within 
sanity.bbclass though?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre