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

Alexander Kanavin alex.kanavin at gmail.com
Fri Jan 31 20:07:42 UTC 2020


On Fri, 31 Jan 2020 at 20:01, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

In typical builds perl-native is already built fairly early as it is needed
by rpm-native
(which in turn is needed by do_package regardless of package format).


> Is this the only recipe that needs pod2man?
>

No, but the rest of them including binutils should get it thorough
opkg-utils dependency. I ran a successful world build to confirm that.
(there might be corner cases which the AB will show, but the basic build is
covered)

Alex
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