[oe] [yocto] python tkinter dependencies

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 10 July 2014 16:11:29 Jate S wrote:
> - Python-tkinter requires the tk recipe in meta-oe, so you must add
> this layer for your build.
> - I am on dora. I found that I needed commit "tk: make multilib build
> compatible and fix library install" made on 12/5/2013
> (1ca29d1cda0d007c4e6a28fe1a4037b4029ad7ae).
> - I created a bbappend for python. In this I added
> DEPENDS_class-target on tk, and RDEPENDS_class-target on tk and
> tk-lib. Also, I did a SRC_URI replace to eliminate the
> avoid_warning_about_tkinter.patch file.
> 
> I was able to build and use python-tkinter successfully.
> 
> The question now is if this should go into meta-oe or oe-core. And how.
> 
> The tcl recipe is in oe-core, but not tk. I'm not yet sure why this
> is. Does anybody know?

I think the answer is that we have some things in OE-Core that depend on tcl 
(e.g. expect) but nothing in OE-Core requires tk.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre