[oe] building netdata: "No package 'zlib' found"

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i was going to start a new thread for this, then remembered this
post i was going to respond to:

On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, Jack Mitchell wrote:

> On 13/02/17 17:01, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   i'm building a totally stock core-image-minimal for qemuppc with
> > latest poky checkout, and when i try to add the existing "netdata"
> > recipe to the mix, i get:
> >
> > | configure: error: Package requirements (zlib) were not met:
> > |
> > | No package 'zlib' found
> > |
> > | Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
> > | installed software in a non-standard prefix.
> > |
> > | Alternatively, you may set the environment variables ZLIB_CFLAGS
> > | and ZLIB_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
> > | See the pkg-config man page for more details.
> >
> >   apart from fixing this, how could this recipe ever have built
> > before? i realize the current recipe for netdata is almost a year
> > old, but should it still not build?
>
> Recipe specific sysroots. Zlib is so common that it was probably
> already available in the shared sysroot to be compiled against, now
> there is no access to the shared sysroot it can't be found and
> fails. So this was always a dependency bug but one that was probably
> never triggered.

  a couple questions. a couple days ago, all i did was add the line:

  DEPENDS = "zlib"

to the netdata_git.bb recipe file, and that trivially solved the
problem. i just updated my poky checkout, built again, and the build
failed since, as i notice from monday, a bunch of recipes (including
netdata) have been blacklisted because of (unsurprisingly) failure to
build:

  $ git show b7f480c

so what should one do here?

  for that recipe, i can submit a patch which adds the DEPENDS line
and removes the blacklisting. or is there a more wide-sweeping plan to
fix recipes that are now missing build-time dependencies based on
recipe-specific sysroots?

  also, if there's no objection, i can submit a patch that adds a
recipe for the far more recent netdata-1.5.0.

  thoughts?

rday

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