[oe] proper way to report(?) conflicting files being installed?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 09:22:54AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >...
> > +# ax_code_coverage.m4 and ax_check_enable_debug.m4 are in gnome-common only
> > +# because older versions of autoconf-archive didn't have them yet. Now they
> > +# are in autoconf-archive from OE-core. We depend on that below to ensure
> > +# that recipes which only depend on gnome-common still get them.
> > +do_install_append () {
> > +    rm -f ${D}${datadir}/aclocal/ax_code_coverage.m4
> > +    rm -f ${D}${datadir}/aclocal/ax_check_enable_debug.m4
> > +}
> > +RDEPENDS_${PN} += "autoconf-archive"
> > +DEPENDS_append_class-native = " autoconf-archive-native"
> > +
> >
> >   it *appears* that solved the problem, which raises the question --
> > should this patch be applied to the current gnome-common recipe? that
> > patchwork entry dates back to 2017 ... should it have been applied at
> > some point?
>
> The currently implemented solution is:
> # Default to enable autoconf-archive to avoid conflicts
> PACKAGECONFIG ??= "autoconf-archive"
> PACKAGECONFIG[autoconf-archive] = "--with-autoconf-archive, --without-autoconf-archive, autoconf-archive"
>
> It is not clear to me why this gives the user to disable it
> instead of unconditionally enabling it.

  i was a bit confused by that as well, but i figured i just didn't
read it carefully enough.

rday