[oe] [PATCH] netcat-openbsd: fix implicit dependency on pkg-config

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 06:07:48 UTC 2017


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 5:12 PM Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>
wrote:

> In the report at http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/130673/
> we see the following:
>
> i586-oe-linux-gcc  -m32 -march=i586 <snip> netcat.o atomicio.o socks.o
> `pkg-config --libs libbsd` -lresolv -o nc
> /bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found
>
> What follows is a bunch of link errors for BSD library functions, as
> the backtick didn't return anything but an empty string and hence no
> BSD library was involved in the link.
>
> I was able to reproduce this by temporarily removing my host version
> of pkg-config, and then validated that this fix solves it while still
> having the host binary removed.  So it should fix the reported issue.
> I also confirmed pkg-config was in the sysroot after the change.
>
> Cc: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>
>
> diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/
> netcat-openbsd_1.105.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/
> netcat-openbsd_1.105.bb
> index bb21e0cfeede..06206a5a59d1 100644
> --- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat-openbsd_1.105.bb
> +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/netcat/netcat-openbsd_1.105.bb
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://ftp.debian.org"
>  LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
>  LIC_FILES_CHKSUM =
> "file://../debian/copyright;md5=ee6bbaacb5db5f2973818f0902c3ae6f"
>
> -DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 libbsd"
> +DEPENDS += "glib-2.0 libbsd pkgconfig-native"


I think inherit pkgconfig should be the way to go here

>
>
>  SRC_URI =
> "${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_${PV}.orig.tar.gz;name=netcat
> \
>
> ${DEBIAN_MIRROR}/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_${PV}-7.debian.tar.gz;name=netcat-patch"
> @@ -42,5 +42,3 @@ do_install() {
>      install -m 755 ${S}/nc ${D}${bindir}/nc.${BPN}
>  }
>  ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "60"
> -
> -PNBLACKLIST[netcat-openbsd] ?= "Fails to build with RSS
> http://errors.yoctoproject.org/Errors/Details/130673/"
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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