[oe] Revert commit c2c8fe4c5629add94bd0b922f5b3446624a9f4d8

[Khem Raj]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Andreas Oberritter
<obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
> On 11/19/2010 11:28 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
>> I'd like to revert commit c2c8fe4c5629add94bd0b922f5b3446624a9f4d8. With
>> this commit my build that includes angstrom-task-gnome.bb fails in a
>> peculiar way. Basically, my process table is filled with a task. Looks
>> like it is trying to run a pkg-config gtk+ operation. This is with
>> angstrom-2010.x and a custom machine very similar to an overo.
>>
>> I realize this is a vague description, but I do not have time to isolate
>> better at this time.
>>
>> Can we go ahead and revert this for now?
>
> No, please don't.
>
> I'm 100% sure that this patch is the only sane way of handling
> pkg-config files. I hope you agree that it wasn't possible for me to
> test every single package before this got merged.
>

agreed. but we are soon going to make a release. So it compiled (in
whatever way)
and now it doesnt (looking from 36000 ft above).
So either we fix the known regressions caused or backout because we
can not make release in this state for sure.

> Still, the solution for problems popping up now is simple: Make sure
> that required libraries install their pkg-config files themselves.
> Usually, they would already do it, but their install rules are
> overridden by custom do_install or do_stage rules in their bitbake recipe.
>
> As you already mentioned, the package causing the problem is gtk+
> (gtk+-1.2_1.2.10.bb).
>
> The solution in this case is very likely to
> - remove do_stage
> - add ${bindir}/gtk-config to FILES_${PN}-dev
> - bump PR
>

super can you cook up a patch.

> The real problem is gtk-config going crazy when gtk's pkg-config file is
> not installed.
>
> I'd have already submitted a patch, but testing takes a lot of time,
> especially when a recipe takes down the build machine.
>
> Maybe it would be wise for bitbake or OE to set ulimit -u to a sane
> value. Is there a way for a process to count the number of its direct
> and indirect child processes?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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