[oe] TSC meeting minutes 20100204

[C Michael Sundius]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:27:34AM -0800, C Michael Sundius wrote:
> > I, too, am still a little unclear  regarding how the new style staging
> > works. Are you saying that we are able now to simply remove the
> do_stage()
> > function and bitbake will somehow just know which files are intended to
> be
> > staged from the install.. what if a [say header] file that was not
> > previously "installed" is required by a dependent recipe?
> >
> Your do_install should already be doing everything to make sure all needed
> headers are installed. Otherwise builds on your target device wont work.
>
> This change means that package-dev packages and staging should effetively
> be identical to build against. If there is a missing header library or
> anything else then improve the do_install()
>
> Graeme
>
> OK, yea, that makes sense.. thank you.

mike