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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
To: McClintock Matthew-B29882 <B29882@freescale.com>,
	Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 18:06:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1342476368.29989.2.camel@lenny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEsOVNf0SDnxATQog_8Li1oeK6wkqhVH+m=Bt=L0bBbR02B05Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:00 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had commandline
> > stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer makes sense to
> > continually build this when the system installed version is likely sufficient.
> >
> > This speeds up build since recipes no longer have to wait for git-native to build
> > if they're fetched from a git:// SRC_URI.
> >
> > Also add git to the sanity checks and drop the no unneeded svn reference.
> 
> What about testing the host system for presence of certain things?
> Then one could
> 
> 1) yum/apt/etc install the needed items

We do something like this in GNOME/jhbuild, but there's no version
comparison:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564373

This is mainly targeted for system libraries which have pkg-config
files, but we're discussing extending it to executables and
non-pkg-config headers:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671042





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-16 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-10 13:32 bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED Richard Purdie
2012-07-10 14:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-10 14:09   ` Richard Purdie
2012-07-10 14:14     ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-10 15:00 ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2012-07-10 15:57   ` Richard Purdie
2012-07-10 16:06     ` Burton, Ross
2012-07-10 16:11     ` McClintock Matthew-B29882
2012-07-10 18:35     ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-10 18:52       ` Khem Raj
2012-07-10 19:23         ` Richard Purdie
2012-07-10 19:58         ` Robert P. J. Day
2012-07-16 22:06   ` Colin Walters [this message]
2012-07-11 12:23 ` Enrico Scholz
2012-07-11 16:19   ` Richard Purdie

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