[oe] help2man-native: task configure fails with `configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required`

[Peter Gsellmann]

Am Donnerstag, 10. März 2011, 15:40:51 schrieb Paul Menzel:
> Dear OE folks,
> 
> 
> some recent commit indirectly seems to have broken `help2man-native` and
> task configure fails.
> 
>     checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>     checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>     checking for library containing dlsym... -ldl
>     checking for library containing bindtextdomain... none required
>     configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
> 
> Adding `liblocale-gettext-perl-native` to `DEPENDS_virtclass-native`
> does not fix the problem but causes a dependency loop.
> 
> I do not understand the dependency for the native package anyway.
> 
>         DEPENDS = "gettext-native perl-native liblocale-gettext-perl-native"
>         DEPENDS_virtclass-native = "perl-native autoconf-native automake-native"
>         RDEPENDS_${PN} = "gettext perl liblocale-gettext-perl"
>         RDEPENDS_${PN}_virtclass-native = ""
> 
> I though that `DEPENDS_virtclass-native` has `DEPENDS` as a subset
> automatically.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
After removing perl-native from ASSUME_PROVIDED and adding help2man-native it worked for me.
But this is only work-around, no solution.

Peter