[oe] [PATCH] gphoto2_2.4.8.bb: Stop configure from looking in /usr/local/include

Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 20:21:15 UTC 2010


2010/11/3 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
> <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> yes a more detailed solution is better. you have to go through the
>>> configure of every
>>> package and understand the behavior then act upon. As I said before
>>> its a tedious task
>>>
>> I'm well aware of this. That is also why in the infrastructure thread
>> I suggested using automated testing to find misbehaving packages.
>>
>> Btw there are 355 .inc files that contain the word autotools and 1899 .bb files.
>> Of course there are lots of dups in there.
>> And maybe for the base recipes we can convince the yocto people that
>> this is a serious QA issue (and they have some people employed to work
>> on this if I understood properly).
>>
>
> numbers means not so much when it comes down to this. I don't know if
> any distribution that even does that
> so I take comfort in everyone being wrong.
>

I agree that numbers don't mean that much. Just wanted to give an
indication of the possible effort needed.
Also no idea how debian does this.
One way to get a minimal package is to have everything in packaged
staging then bake the recipe.
that'll only drag in stuff from depends.

Frans




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