[oe] problem with SHLIBs and RDEPENDS

[Koen Kooi]

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On 17-06-10 10:18, Robert Schuster wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to make the OpenJDK recipes 'OE ready'. One hard issue I am
> facing has to do with the shlibs mechanism in OE.
> 
> In order to get OpenJDKs dependencies right its libraries and binaries
> are checked for library dependencies. That is all fine and I would love
> to activate that.
> 
> Actually we have three kinds of OpenJDK builds atm:
>  - zero (interpreter only; but with enhancements on ARM to make it fly)
>  - shark (zero interpreter plus JIT based on LLVM)
>  - cacao (completely different runtime)
> 
> The binary version of those recipes all bring a libjvm.so. Theoretically
> a user could install all three packages (you can do that in
> Debian/Ubuntu for example). However when the shlibs mechanism is
> activated it puts the first built openjdk variant into a registry and
> all subsequent variants get a hard runtime dependency on that package
> (e.g. openjdk-shark will depend on openjdk-zero if I built zero first)
> although there is no technical reason for this.
> 
> So my question is: How can I solve this issue without resorting to:
> 
> EXCLUDE_FROM_SHLIBS = "1"
> 
> which I currently use and which has the bad side-effect of not having
> openjdk's own dependencies. :(

Try:

PRIVATE_LIBS = "libjvm.so"

That will mark any libjvm.so in PACKAGES for that recipe as private and
it won't show up as a shlib provider. We use this in mozilla recipes.

regards,

Koen
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