[oe] QA issues with libvmime

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Nathan Harris <nharris at eoimaging.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/2011 5:24 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Harris<nharris at eoimaging.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, when I added pkgconfg to my inherit list, cleaned the
>>> package
>>> and then re-bitbaked, I still get the same error message.  I verified
>>> that
>>> vmime.pc is removed during the clean process (along with the other temp
>>> files).
>>
>> Is it also removed from sysroot ?
>
> Yes it's removed from sysroot too.  I tried to build again.  Did a updatedb
> and locate on vmime.pc.  I can see it in a few places (including the sysroot
> directory).  I do the "bitbake -c clean libvmime", updatedb, and locate does
> not find anything.  I searched manually and can not find vmime.pc.  The
> recipe still fails.  It's frustrating since it seems like the pkgconfig
> should have fixed it.  At one point, I was trying to build with autotools
> and gave up that route.  Maybe there is another file out there confusing the
> issue?  Here's the entire output of bitbake and my new recipe.
>
>
> The recipe:
>
> DESCRIPTION = "VMime is a free mail library for C++"
> HOMEPAGE = "http://www.vmime.org/"
> DEPENDS = "libgsasl gnutls"
> PR = "r1"
>
> SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/vmime/${PN}-${PV}.tar.bz2"
> SRC_URI[md5sum] = "d5b6de44f7f9ca0e4cefe597d1905605"
> SRC_URI[sha256sum] =
> "3b66cb76d9bc7da80ef1f271cc29d3a183b5ff8b560ef60e85ff006bffb4d1ae"
>
> SRC_URI += "file://sendmail_disable.patch"
>
> inherit scons pkgconfig
>

I looked into the sources of this library and it uses autotools so you
need to inherit autotools as well.