[OE-core] [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Add sdl-config to HOSTTOOLS if using host SDL

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 11:05 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 22:15 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> > 
> > If ASSUME_PROVIDES contains libsdl-native, we need to add sdl-
> > config
> > to HOSTTOOLS to allow access to the host sdl-config.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Liu <net147 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > index 8e4f4bbb56..3ad905c917 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > @@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ HOSTTOOLS += " \
> >  # Tools needed to run testimage runtime image testing
> >  HOSTTOOLS += "ip ping ps scp ssh stty"
> >  
> > +# Link to sdl-config if using host SDL
> > +HOSTTOOLS += "${@bb.utils.contains('ASSUME_PROVIDES', 'libsdl-
> > native', 'sdl-config', '', d)}"
> > +
> Why are you checking ASSUME_PROVIDES? The variable is called
> ASSUME_PROVIDED.
> 
> Even if you had checked the right variable, is that really necessary?
> I'm building qemu with ASSUME_PROVIDED += "libsdl-native" just fine
> on Debian Jessie, without sdl-config in HOSTTOOLS.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply, going through my backlog... I see that this
> has been merged. Probably needs to be reverted or fixed.

I've reverted this since I can't see how it can actually work or help
anything, unless someone has set "ASSUME_PROVIDES" to test this (which
is a variable that doesn't exist or is used anywhere).

Cheers,

Richard