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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 00:18 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> How badly do people dislike the patch below?
> 
> From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> Subject: bitbake/oe-core: Filter contents of PATH
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
> index d6bcfa3..dbb74dd 100644
> --- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
> +++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
> @@ -1526,3 +1526,13 @@ class LogCatcher(logging.Handler):
>          self.messages.append(bb.build.logformatter.format(record))
>      def contains(self, message):
>          return (message in self.messages)
> +
> +def setup_native_bindir(dest, toolsvar, d):
> +    tools = d.getVar(toolsvar).split()
> +    path = os.environ.get("PATH")
> +    mkdirhier(dest)
> +    for tool in tools:
> +        desttool = os.path.join(dest, tool)
> +        if not os.path.exists(desttool):
> +            srctool = which(path, tool)
> +            os.symlink(srctool, desttool)
> diff --git a/meta/conf/layer.conf b/meta/conf/layer.conf
> index 87c235f..21265ed 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/layer.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/layer.conf
> @@ -59,3 +59,14 @@ SIGGEN_EXCLUDE_SAFE_RECIPE_DEPS += " \
>    oprofile->virtual/kernel \
>  "
>  
> +NATIVETOOLS = " \
> +    bash sh cut sed gcc ld git rm install which find xargs cat true
> mktemp \
> +    grep tar gzip touch cp mv basename dirname tr getopt sort awk
> head tail \
> +    mkdir patch uniq perl python chmod python3 ar strip expr ls make
> as \
> +    ranlib egrep echo chown cpio tee wc wget bzip2 stat date rmdir
> od diff \
> +    md5sum unlzma dd chrpath file pod2man gunzip python2.7 ln g++ [
> \
> +    taskset \

Adding "false true uname test hostname nm objdump objcopy cmp printf
env" gets this going much further. taskset is only above as I have
local patches in my build which use it for other experiments and I
added it just to get things working.

Cheers,

Richard