[OE-core] [PATCH] qemu: add gettext to DEPENDS

[Chris Patterson]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 05:21:09PM -0400, Chris Patterson wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is not a correct fix. We have a gettext bbclass for a reason.
>> >
>>
>> I did look at that prior to doing this.  It was my initial approach,
>> but inheriting gettext causes qemu build to fail when it modifies the
>> EXTRA_OECONF options with the nls flag (that qemu doesn't process).
>> There are quite a few other recipes using gettext-native in their
>> DEPENDS, and the reason for one over the other isn't quite clear.
>>
>> In the other thread (v2), Khem requested it only be added
>> conditionally if the gtk packageconfig flag is enabled.  Do you think
>> it would be appropriate to check packageconfig flag, then
>> conditionally inherit, then resolve (scrub) the unsupported configure
>> flags? Or modify the class such that modifying the OECONF is prevented
>> to begin with?
>
> Are you using gtk PACKAGECONFIG for qemu-native (or nativesdk-qemu)?
> Last time I've tried I've found that there are many things missing to
> make it usable, see last few commits at:
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=jansa/qemu
>
> I haven't tried gtk(3) for target build, it probably works better there.
>

I was looking to use it in my image (non-native).  Thank you for the info!