[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] layer.conf: add meta-python to LAYERDEPENDS

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:39 PM Changqing Li
<changqing.li at windriver.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/7/20 12:12 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 11:55 PM Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Can we fix mozjs instead?
> > perhaps thats better fix, maybe it can made optional via packageconfig ?
> > or marked incompatible if meta-python is not included
>
> Hi,  Khem
>
> There are 2 solutions for the problem, Which do you think is better?
>
>
> 1.  fix this by using BBFILES_DYNAMIC, add a folder dynamic-layers under
> meta-oe,
>
> and move those recipes that depend on meta-python under the
> dynamic-layers.  and add
>
> these bbfiles by BBFILES_DYNAMIC.   but these will need to move many
> recipes from
>
> original folder to folder dynamic-layers,   do you think this change is
> acceptable?


I think we can live with BBFILES_DYNAMIC solution.
>
> git diff conf/layer.conf
>
> +# only activates content when identified layers are present,
> +# to ensure yocto compatibility check pass
> +BBFILES_DYNAMIC +=
> "meta-python:${LAYERDIR}/dynamic-layers/meta-python/recipes-*/*/*.bb \
> +"
>
> 2. move those python recipes from meta-python under meta-oe
>
> >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 6:38 AM <changqing.li at windriver.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li at windriver.com>
> >>>
> >>> yocto-check-layer/test_world failed since error:
> >>> ERROR: test_world (common.CommonCheckLayer)
> >>> ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'python3-pytoml-native' (but
> >>> /meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-extended/mozjs/mozjs_60.9.0.bb
> >>> DEPENDS on or otherwise requires it). Close matches:
> >>>    python3-numpy-native
> >>>    python3-pycairo-native
> >>>    python3-rpm-native
> >>> ERROR: Required build target 'meta-world-pkgdata' has no buildable
> >>> providers.
> >>> Missing or unbuildable dependency chain was: ['meta-world-pkgdata',
> >>> 'mozjs', 'python3-pytoml-native']
> >>>
> >>> mozjs depend on recipe under meta-python, but meta-python
> >>> isn't in LAYERDEPENDS, so error occurred. Fix by add
> >>> it into LAYERDEPENDS.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li at windriver.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>   meta-oe/conf/layer.conf | 5 ++++-
> >>>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
> >>> index c537736..0ce0ad2 100644
> >>> --- a/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
> >>> +++ b/meta-oe/conf/layer.conf
> >>> @@ -27,7 +27,10 @@ BBFILE_PRIORITY_openembedded-layer = "6"
> >>>   # cause compatibility issues with other layers
> >>>   LAYERVERSION_openembedded-layer = "1"
> >>>
> >>> -LAYERDEPENDS_openembedded-layer = "core"
> >>> +LAYERDEPENDS_openembedded-layer = " \
> >>> +    core \
> >>> +    meta-python \
> >>> +"
> >>>
> >>>   LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_openembedded-layer = "thud warrior zeus"
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> 2.7.4
> >>>
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