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

[Mark Hatle]

On 3/8/17 11:21 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
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> On 8 March 2017 at 09:43, Peter Kjellerstedt <peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com
> <mailto:peter.kjellerstedt at axis.com>> wrote:
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>     since I see that you have integrated/staged the two patches that add
>     inherits of pkgconfig, but not the patches that add the dummy commands,
>     I assume you have some reservations to these patches. What are your
>     take on the subject of blacklisting vs whitelisting the commands from
>     the build host? I know that having these dummy commands in place helped
>     me a great deal when updating our recipes to build correctly with RSS.
> 
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> FWIW I wasn't entirely keen on how the blacklisting had to be very careful about
> how PATH was manipulated, which is why I merged to my staging branch the fixes
> but not the dummy commands.
> 
> If the majority of people agree that this should be merged I don't have a strong
> opinion either way.

The scripts would be very useful for people to avoid host-contamination issues.

If we could build up a set of these types of tools (and associated 'please do
the following' behaviors) I think it would be very useful.  (Starting with these
three items will probably catch the majority of things.)

--Mark

> Ross
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