[OE-core] [PATCHv3 0/5] Add dummy tools to help identify needed dependencies

[Max Krummenacher]

Hi

2017-03-03 12:17 GMT+01:00 Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>:

> To circumvent this, I created dummy versions of the tools that always
> fail and placed them in the scripts directory. Thus, if the real tool
> has not been installed in the RSS, the dummy version is used and the
> build fails. For good measures I even output a message that says what
> needs to be corrected in the recipe.
>
> Included is also an update to linux-libc-headers as it apparently
> needs to inherit pkgconfig, which the introduction of the dummy
> version of pkg-config showed.
>

I tried the whole series, i.e. applied on top of openembedded-core,
20c6e87 and bitbake 6fe07ed.

The resulting build failed in linux-libc-headers because it picked up
the dummy script instead of the real pkg-config binary which actually
is installed in the RSS.

run.do_configure has a PATH setting with first ...meta/scripts and
only then the paths to the different RSS directories.

Changing that order in meta/conf/bitbake.conf line 450 fixed this for
me, however I'm unsure of posible sideeffects of that reordering.

Max