[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH V2] meta-oe: recipes-devtools: add libubox recipe

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu at ni.com> wrote:
>> can they be versioned ?
>>
>
> My initial problem in patch v1 was that I was getting this dev-deps error (I
> used INSANE_SKIP to suppress it):
>
> ERROR: QA Issue: libubox rdepends on libubox-dev [dev-deps]
> ERROR: QA run found fatal errors. Please consider fixing them.
> ERROR: Function failed: do_package_qa
>
> Martin J. told me to fix the issue properly for these recipes.
>
> Now, in v2, I've made it go away by reordering ${PN} in front of ${PN}-dev
> in PACKAGES and explicitly adding these files to FILES_${PN}. If I use the
> default PACKAGES variable, or do not add the libraries to FILES_${PN}, that
> error reappears.
>
> I don't have a level of knowledge-depth of the OE packaging mechanism to
> fully understand what is happening here and I couldn't find more info in the
> docs... So any help on this is very much appreciated :)

if you were to change the package such that the libraries were using
versioning scheme libfoo.so.X,Y.Z
all your issues will be solved. Since the default packagers would get
invoked with right inputs. Second option is to redefine SOLIBSDEV = ""
and SOLIBS = ".so"