[OE-core] [PATCH] core: recipes: fix some native tools dependencies

[Sumit Garg]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 17:35, Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 12:55, Sumit Garg <sumit.garg at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> But looking at this failure again it seems like "autopoint" is
>> provided by gettext rather than autotools. So yes, I think you are
>> right and "xz-native" dependency should go in
>> meta/classes/gettext.bbclass instead as follows:
>>
>> diff --git a/meta/classes/gettext.bbclass b/meta/classes/gettext.bbclass
>> index be2ef3b311..443c9c4cb0 100644
>> --- a/meta/classes/gettext.bbclass
>> +++ b/meta/classes/gettext.bbclass
>> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ def gettext_dependencies(d):
>>      if d.getVar('INHIBIT_DEFAULT_DEPS') and not oe.utils.inherits(d,
>> 'cross-canadian'):
>>          return ""
>>      if d.getVar('USE_NLS') == 'no':
>> -        return "gettext-minimal-native"
>> -    return "gettext-native"
>> +        return "gettext-minimal-native xz-native"
>> +    return "gettext-native xz-native"
>
>
> I don't believe this is right either, at least not for the master branch. Autopoint is specifically excluded for all autotools-based recipes; psmisc used to be an exception to that, but no longer is with the latest master branch and latest gettext.
>

How would you like to handle it on stable branches for recipes (like
psmisc) which depends on autopoint?

-Sumit

> Alex