[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 2/5] talloc, libtevent, libtdb: depend on attr

[Huang, Jie (Jackie)]

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> Subject: Re: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 2/5] talloc, libtevent, libtdb: depend on attr
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Huang, Jie (Jackie) <
> Jackie.Huang at windriver.com> wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:
> > openembedded-devel-
> > > bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Larson
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> > > Cc: Christopher Larson
> > > Subject: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH 2/5] talloc,libtevent,libtdb: depend on
> > attr
> > >
> > > From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
> > >
> > > These will depend on libattr if it's available, and we need deterministic
> > > builds. This fixes a build-deps failure which occurs when attr is built
> > before
> > > them. There's currently no configuration option to explicitly control
> > this
> > > dependency, and I don't know enough about waf to add such an option, so
> > > unconditionally dep on it for now.
> >
> > I added depends on libcap  for libtevent for the same reason days ago, but
> > it really concern
> > me now, the 'libreplace' in these waf based packages check many packages(I
> > see
> > libbsd, libcap, libacl for now) existence then build with them if found,
> > and there
> > is no configure option to disable them, does anyone has a better idea how
> > to
> > make waf build in deterministic way? Maybe we should disable the built-in
> > libraries 'libreplace' or add a PACKAGECONFIG for it?
> 
> 
> I don't think PACKAGECONFIG will help unless we have a way to explicitly

You're right, a quick try show me that it doesn't help.

Thanks,
Jackie

> disable or enable the dependency with waf, otherwise it'd still be
> non-deterministic. But I think that would be ideal, that's how we handle
> these things in autoconf, add an argument to let us explicitly
> enable/disable it. Hopefully someone else on the list knows enough about
> waf to be able to do so.
> --
> Christopher Larson
> kergoth at gmail dot com
> Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
> Maintainer - Tslib
> Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics
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