[OE-core] [PATCH] gettext.bbclass: do not add virtual/gettext to DEPENDS

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2017-08-29 at 12:55 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> gettext has a notoriously slow configuration step, and so in my
> testing this  greatly speeds up building core-image-minimal: from
> 21m36s to 19m2s (empty sstate and tmp, but pre-populated downloads).
> 
> I have also built world, and core-image-sato to make sure it doesn't
> break or modify the build, and there is no difference whatsoever in
> packages and images content. Target gettext not seems to be used for
> anything.
> 
> Also fix up insane.bbclass to remove the corresponding QA check.

I like this idea, one small question below...

> diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> index b7177c9b329..a2ec466775f 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> @@ -1183,9 +1183,9 @@ Rerun configure task after fixing this.""")
>          elif bb.data.inherits_class('cross-canadian', d):
>              gt = "nativesdk-gettext"
>          else:
> -            gt = "virtual/" + ml + "gettext"
> +            gt = None

Should this be gettext-native?

>          deps = bb.utils.explode_deps(d.getVar('DEPENDS') or "")
> -        if gt not in deps:
> +        if gt is not None and gt not in deps:
>              for config in configs:
>                  gnu = "grep \"^[[:space:]]*AM_GNU_GETTEXT\" %s
> >/dev/null" % config
>                  if subprocess.call(gnu, shell=True) == 0:

Cheers,

Richard