[oe] RFC: merging recipes from Jalimo

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Dec 12, 2007 10:13 PM, Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 6:01:41 PM, you wrote:
> > Hi Leon,
> > Leon Woestenberg schrieb:
> >> Hello Robert,
> >> I see the compile task assumes the availability of "javac".
> >>
> >> javac -d build -source 1.4 -sourcepath source `cat $list`;
> >>
> >> How do you expect this to be available on the host? Will any javac
> >> that's out there be good enough to use?
>
>   As was discussed lately on this list, we should track the expected
> host dependencies. This is done using ASSUME_PROVIDED in
> conf/bitbake.conf. So, based on the above, I think you want to add
> javac-native and java-runtime-native there. Then, your recipe should
> DEPENDS on them, and in comment, please include the relevant
> additional info above. This should be good compromise, as indeed,
> complete self-bootstrapping would be a task in itself, sidetracking you
> from the current work.
>

Yes, fully agreeing with this approach and reasoning.

BTW, I didn't want to sidetrack you, on the contrary, just wanted to
know what the implications where and how we should neatly solve them.

Regards,
-- 
Leon