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Subject: Re: build dependency cycles in openembedded
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Hi,

Quoting Marko Lindqvist (2013-02-18 18:22:26)
> OE has both native build and cross-compile part, and problems can arise in
> native part too. One example is that pkg-config version used has not been
> updated for a while since build of newer version would depend on glib, wh=
ich
> needs pkg-config to build...

Great example! The same loop exists in binary distributions. Though there i=
t is
a bit more involved since the notion of binary and source packages exists.
Therefor the loop you mention is not between the pkg-config and glib source
packages but between the pkg-config source package and the glib development
headers binary package libglib2.0-dev. So while the glib source package can=
 be
built without pkg-config if ./configure is called with manually supplied
arguments like this:

    ./configure \
        PKG_CONFIG=3Dfalse \
        ZLIB_CFLAGS=3D-I/usr/include ZLIB_LIBS=3D"-L/usr/lib -lz" \
        LIBFFI_CFLAGS=3D-I/usr/include LIBFFI_LIBS=3D"-L/usr/lib -lffi" \
        --disable-libelf \
        --with-pcre=3Dinternal

The dependency loop does still exist because the binary package libglib2.0-=
dev
can only be installed if the pkg-config binary package exists. But the
pkg-config binary package can only be built from the pkg-config source pack=
age
using the uninstallable libglib2.0-dev binary package....

So while it is good to hear an example for a dependency cycle in OpenEmbedd=
ed,
I now wonder why I didnt find more instances where those impact the develop=
ment
and deployment of the OpenEmbedded distribution for new platforms?

cheers, josch