[oe] DEPENDS broken for native(sdk).bbclass Was: libgee introspection problem

[Martin Jansa]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:25:51PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:39:26AM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:16:46AM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > With the testing branch I get a problem with libgee native in
> > > combination with introspection.
> > > I'm building distro minimal, target neek (but I doubt that the latter matters)
> > > 
> > > Anyone an idea?
> > 
> > that should be fixed with
> > http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=df932a2769c2f6f7195363e8eb83994846805398
> > 
> > but that didn't make it to DEPENDS_virtclass-native (as well as
> > glib-2.0), I'm checking why (reading native.bbclass looks like it 
> > should be there automatically).
> > 
> > if I don't find bug in native.bbclass I'll append it to
> > DEPENDS_virtclass-native too
> 
> native.bbclass and nativesdk.bbclass use
> ORIG_DEPENDS := "${DEPENDS}"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native ?= "${ORIG_DEPENDS}"
> 
> and then for every dependency in DEPENDS_virtclass-native it does:
> 
> 1) if it ends with -cross appends dependency ending -native instead
> 2) if it ends with -native it just appends
> 3) else appends dependency ending with native instead
> 
> That's all nice and right and works in theory, BUT:
> 
> base.bbclass:
> DEPENDS_prepend="${@base_deps(d)} "
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native_prepend="${@base_deps(d)} "
> DEPENDS_virtclass-nativesdk_prepend="${@base_deps(d)} "
> 
> autotools.bbclass:
> DEPENDS_prepend = "${@autotools_deps(d)}"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native_prepend = "${@autotools_deps(d)}"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-nativesdk_prepend = "${@autotools_deps(d)}"
> 
> vala.bbclass:
> DEPENDS += "vala-native"
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native += "vala-native"
> 
> so DEPENDS_virtclass-native is not empty when native.bbclass calls:
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native ?= "${ORIG_DEPENDS}"
> and ORIG_DEPENDS are just ignored
> 
> we cannot fix it with
> DEPENDS_virtclass-native += "${ORIG_DEPENDS}"
> 
> because sometimes we want to override DEPENDS_virtclass-native from
> recipe (ie when target recipe depends on its own ${PN}-native).
> 
> Maybe it's because the order of bbclass processing was changed? It would
> work OK if we process native and nativesdk first.
> 
> I've added small debug output to see order now
> DEBUG: Removing /OE/dev/recipes/libgee/libgee_0.6.0.bb from cache
> DEBUG: Parsing /OE/dev/recipes/libgee/libgee_0.6.0.bb
> DEBUG: inherited base
> DEBUG: inherited autotools
> DEBUG: inherited vala
> DEBUG: inherited base
> DEBUG: inherited autotools
> DEBUG: inherited vala
> DEBUG: inherited native
> 
> No idea why I see it twice..
> 
> Current broken state:
> DEBUG: OrigDepends: autoconf-native automake-native libtool-native gnu-config-native coreutils-native linux-libc-headers-native glib-2.0 vala-native gobject-introspection-native
> DEBUG: Depends: autoconf-native automake-native libtool-native gnu-config-native coreutils-native linux-libc-headers-native vala-native
> glib-2.0 is from libgee.inc, gobject-introspection-native from libgee_0.6.0.bb, but both lost
> 
> If I remove those append/preppend from bbclasses:
> DEBUG: OrigDepends: autoconf-native automake-native libtool-native gnu-config-native coreutils-native linux-libc-headers-native glib-2.0 vala-native gobject-introspection-native
> DEBUG: Depends: autoconf-native automake-native libtool-native gnu-config-native coreutils-native linux-libc-headers-native glib-2.0 vala-native gobject-introspection-native
> 
> 
> I'll send patch for removing those DEPENDS_virtclass-native(sdk) from bbclasses. 
> But that will break those recipes where DEPENDS_virtclass-native is used to override
> common DEPENDS but without still needed dependencies from classes, so enforced 
> bbclass order would be probably better fix.
> 
> We really need some sort of unit tests :/.
> 
> Regards,

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