[oe] virtclass_install prepend
Henning Heinold
heinold at inf.fu-berlin.de
Mon Sep 6 20:11:45 UTC 2010
> >> The code is:
> >> do_install_virtclass-native_prepend() {
> >> install -d ${D}${datadir}/dbus
> >> install -m 0644 dbus-bus-introspect.xml ${D}${datadir}/dbus
> >> }
> >>
> >> Actually if the standard do_install needs to be changed, it generally
> >> raises some alarms with me.
> >> Why would we need to install something that the package normally does
> >> not install?
> >> (of course this could be a bug in the package, but then I would prefer
> >> a patch that we also try to push upstream).
> >>
> >
> > Agreed, that is odd. If it's something that dbus using things might need,
> > why is it only prepended for the native version, and as you say, why is it
> > not installed by the upstream install target. I'd do a git blame and figure
> > out who added that and ask them :)
> > --
>
> Henning,
> Git blame gives your name as the person who created those lines.
> Care to comment?
>
> Frans
Hi,
if I remember correctly this file is generated in the build process. But somehow
in the later versions of dbus-glib there is somehow an error so this file gets not installed
at all in the native variant. So I did it per hand.
Bye Henning
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