[oe] Problem for building glibc (ipkg-build: command not found)

[Richard Purdie]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:38 +0200, Jeremy Dufour wrote:
> On 04/01/07 at 00:27:25 (+0100), Richard Purdie wrote:
> > [...]
> > It looks like a dependency issue, there is no way to tell bitbake that
> > ipkg-utils-native must have run do_populate_staging before it can run
> > do_package_write tasks.
> 
> If I understand well, the problem here is that glibc is trying to do a
> "do_package_write" before ipkg-utils-native is built?

Correct.

> But I did not understand exactly why we can not "just" said that glibc
> depend on ipk-utils-native?

In bitbake 1.8 we've enabled multithreading and we've chosen to do this
on a per task basis rather than a per .bb file basis. We therefore need
task level dependencies rather than the higher per file .bb
dependencies.

Regards,

Richard