[oe] problem with SHLIBs and RDEPENDS

[Robert Schuster]

Hey cool, thats it.

Am 17.06.2010 11:45, schrieb Koen Kooi:
> 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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