[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf: drop pod2man from hosttools

[Joshua Watt]

On 1/31/20 12:49 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> pod2man writes the current date into manpages, and while later
> versions of it respect SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and use that instead,
> earlier versions do not. This was found to cause reproducibility
> issues.
>
> This patch replaces host version of pod2man with one from
> perl-native.
>
> [YOCTO #13755]
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin at gmail.com>
> ---
>   meta/conf/bitbake.conf                               | 2 +-
>   meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_0.4.2.bb | 2 ++
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> index b6aa9f33e92..f7544b35c6e 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ HOSTTOOLS += " \
>       cpp cut date dd diff diffstat dirname du echo egrep env expand expr false \
>       fgrep file find flock g++ gawk gcc getconf getopt git grep gunzip gzip \
>       head hostname iconv id install ld ldd ln ls make makeinfo md5sum mkdir mknod \
> -    mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pod2man pr printf pwd \
> +    mktemp mv nm objcopy objdump od patch perl pr printf pwd \

There has been some reluctance to dropping pod2man from the hosttools 
and requiring perl-native as a build time dependency due to the negative 
impact on the build time.


>       python3 ranlib readelf readlink realpath rm rmdir rpcgen sed seq sh sha256sum \
>       sleep sort split stat strings strip tail tar tee test touch tr true uname \
>       uniq wc wget which xargs \
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_0.4.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_0.4.2.bb
> index 6495726500f..8e7ef00b087 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_0.4.2.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/opkg-utils/opkg-utils_0.4.2.bb
> @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
>   
>   RDEPENDS_${PN} += "bash"
>   
> +inherit perlnative
> +

Is this the only recipe that needs pod2man?


>   # For native builds we use the host Python
>   PYTHONRDEPS = "python3 python3-shell python3-io python3-math python3-crypt python3-logging python3-fcntl python3-pickle python3-compression python3-stringold"
>   PYTHONRDEPS_class-native = ""