[oe] legacy staging

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/21 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>

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> Hi,
>
> I built only a small sample of packages (angstrom-gnome-image and
> openjdk) and I get these 53 in legagy-staging.log:
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> bcel/bcel_5.2.bb
> cacao/cacaoh-native_0.99.3.bb
> classpath/classpath-tools-native.bb
> classpath/classpath_0.98.bb
> cup/cup_0.10k.bb
> dbus/dbus-glib-native_0.76.bb
> gawk/gawk-native_3.1.4.bb
> gdbm/gdbm-native_1.8.3.bb
> gdbm/gdbm_1.8.3.bb
> glib-1.2/glib-1.2-native_1.2.10.bb
> gnome/gconf-native_2.6.1.bb
> gnome/pyorbit_2.24.0.bb
> gtk+/gtk+-1.2_1.2.10.bb
> guile/guile_1.8.7.bb
> intltool/intltool_0.40.3.bb
> jakarta-libs/regexp_1.5.bb
> jamvm/jamvm-initial_1.4.5.bb
> jlex/jlex_1.2.6.bb
> libffi/libffi-native_2.0+gcc4.3.2.bb
> libffi/libffi_3.0.8.bb
> libfribidi/libfribidi-native_0.10.4.bb
> libglade/libglade_2.6.4.bb
> libgsm/libgsm_1.0.12.bb
> libtool/libtool-cross_2.2.6b.bb
> libtool/libtool_2.2.6b.bb
> llvm/llvm2.7-native_2.7.bb
> llvm/llvm2.7_2.7.bb
> makedevs/makedevs-native_1.0.0.bb
> mml-widget/gtkmathview_0.8.0.bb
> mozilla/rhino_1.7r1.bb
> mpeg2dec/mpeg2dec_0.4.0b.bb
> mysql/mysql5-native_5.1.40.bb
> mysql/mysql5_5.1.40.bb
> openjdk/openjdk-6_6b18-1.8.bb
> openobex/openobex_1.5.bb
> perl/libnet-dbus-perl_0.33.6.bb
> perl/libxml-parser-perl_2.36.bb
> perl/libxml-simple-perl_2.18.bb
> perl/libxml-twig-perl_3.33.bb
> perl/perl_5.8.8.bb
> python/python-docutils-native_0.5.bb
> python/python_2.6.4.bb
> samba/samba_3.3.9.bb
> squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools-native_4.0.bb
> tcltk/tcl-native_8.4.19.bb
> tzcode/tzcode-native_2010j.bb
> u-boot/u-boot_git.bb
> xalan-j/xalan-j_2.7.1.bb
> xerces-j/xerces-j_2.9.1.bb
> xml-commons/jaxp1.3_1.3.04.bb
> xml-commons/xml-commons-resolver1.1_1.2.bb
> xorg-font/font-util-native_1.1.1.bb
> xorg-proto/calibrateproto_git.bb
>
>
> regards,
>
> Koen
>

What do you want to say with this list?
I did a grep for do_stage and found 1119 recipes that still have a do_stage
function.
In my opinion all of these should be updated or removed (where for old
recipes that are not pinned I have a strong preference for removing).

Ideally in the end we should be able to remove the do_stage invocation from
the build machinery (and if there are one or two recipes where it is
unavoidable they could add it as a private task)

I browsed the list to see if there was anything I created and/or felt
responsible for.
The only thing I could come up with is perl/libxml-twig-perl_3.33.bb which I
created for mythtv.
I've peeked into it and it has no do_stage, but it inherits cpan and
cpan.bbclass contains a cpan_do_stage function.
My guesspectation is that in cpan.bbclass the function cpan_do_stage can go
together with the test in cpan_do_install, but I have not enough knowledge
of our build machinery or perl & cpan to be sure enough to remove it.

Frans.

BTW: the observation with libxml-twig-perl shows that the actual # of
recipes that has legacy staging is even greater than the 1119 I mentoned.
The good news is that fixing things like cpan.bbclass fixes a lot of them at
once.