[OE-core] [PATCH] gobject-introspection.bbclass: Disable writing to $HOME/.cache/g-ir-scanner

[Jason Wessel]

On 4/11/19 9:44 AM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Generally because generating introspection data is disabled for native
> packages, as a matter of policy (do not build something which is
> unused and untested).
> 
> If you could add
> EXTRA_OEMESON_append_class-native = " ${GI_DISABLE_FLAG}"
> 
> to the gdk-pixbuf recipe, and re-test (without your fix, to be extra
> sure) that g-ir-scanner is not invoked and nothing shows up in its
> cache, I would appreciate.


Thank you for the explanation.  I think the problem is more widespread than just gdk-pixbuf, now that I have a slightly better idea about what we are looking for.  My build is not even complete and I can see there are three additional places the g-ir-scanner is creating .cache entries.  

/poky/build% grep -r /usr/bin/g-ir-scanner tmp/work/*/*/*/temp |awk -F/ '{print $4}' |sort -u 
atk-native
at-spi2-core-native
pango-native


Is it the case the bbclass file should be altered to set this variable for the -native, or does each package need to be modified individually? 

Jason.