[oe-users] Prerequisite on host

[Robert Schuster]

Hi Gilles,

Gilles Casse schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> For building an ipk package, a specific software must be already 
> installed on the host.
There is a small list of programs that must be available on the host
before being able to use OE (gcc, make, ...).
The ipk tools are not in this list.

> At the moment, I check this in the recipe with a few shell commands.
This is not how it is supposed to be done.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?
Add a *-native package for the program you need that builds the specific
software from source, installs it into native staging and put the
package into the DEPENDS line of the recipe that needs the program.

> If I understand it correctly, the DEPENDS variable can't be used since 
> it concerns dependencies on the target.
DEPENDS does not care about whether the package is for the target or not.

Regards
Robert

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