[OE-core] Does recipe specific sysrooot (or whatelse in current oe) break native dependencies?

[Martin Jansa]

Hi Andreas,

I think it's feature which was already there, but almost never triggered
(even in test-dependencies.sh tests), but with RSS it fails reliably.

See:
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2016-July/124435.html

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Andreas Müller <
schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Andreas Müller
> <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I try to get meta-qt5-extra fit for latest oe-core (RSS). One thing
> > that causes my attention is that many recipes's configure can be fixed
> > by adding gettext-native. This seems odd to me because all of these
> > recipes depend upon kdoctools which depends on gettext-native.
> > For instance for kconfigwidgets depending on kdoctools:
> >
> > * in kdoctool'sworkdir/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin there is a gettext
> binary
> > * but in kconfigwidgets'sworkdir/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin there
> > isn't a gettext binary
> >
> > Is it possible that recipe specific sysroot broke native dependency
> chain?
> >
> > One note which might be important for this issue: In meta-qt5-extra I
> > chose a the following design decision: If there is a pair of
> > native/cross recipes
> > * each cross recipe depends on native recipe
> > * all other recipes depend on cross recipes
> >
> > This reduced maintenance efforts (I don't have to care if a recipe
> > depends on cross libs or native executables) and avoids race trouble
> > with cmake's toolchain path sequence 1. cross 2. native
> >
> > So what goes wrong here - or where am I mistaken?
> >
> Another more common examples:
>
> * in meta-qt5-extra I could fix many recipes by depending on
> qtbase-native although they already depended on qtbase (qtbase depends
> on qtbase-native)
> * right after recipe specific sysroot a dependency on qtbase-native
> was added in cmake_qt5.bbclass although it depended on qtbase already
> and qtbase depends on qtbase-native
>
> Before we carry on adding dozens of dependencies and blacklisting
> world: Are missing native dependencies a bug or a feature - or where
> am I going wrong? What scares me most is that my way of depending
> always on cross recipes in meta-qt5-extra will not work anymore
> (mentioned in my previous mail) and turn into a unmaintainable burden.
>
> Andreas
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