Re: [PATCH] gphoto2_2.4.8.bb: Stop configure from looking in /usr/local/include

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>:
>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
>> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
>>>> <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 2010/11/3 Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes a more detailed solution is better. you have to go through the
>>>>>> configure of every
>>>>>> package and understand the behavior then act upon. As I said before
>>>>>> its a tedious task
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm well aware of this. That is also why in the infrastructure thread
>>>>> I suggested using automated testing to find misbehaving packages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw there are 355 .inc files that contain the word autotools and 1899 .bb files.
>>>>> Of course there are lots of dups in there.
>>>>> And maybe for the base recipes we can convince the yocto people that
>>>>> this is a serious QA issue (and they have some people employed to work
>>>>> on this if I understood properly).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> numbers means not so much when it comes down to this. I don't know if
>>>> any distribution that even does that
>>>> so I take comfort in everyone being wrong.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree that numbers don't mean that much. Just wanted to give an
>>> indication of the possible effort needed.
>>> Also no idea how debian does this.
>>
>> Does it do it in first place ?
>
> I peeked briefly at the sources.
> Debian seems to resolve the problem by going for the max dependencies
> so autotools can pick up everything.
> E.g. for gphoto2, lenny has a depends on both libexif and libreadline
> (see http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gphoto2)
> So basically they go for the max config.
>
> We could do the same. Then again for deeply embedded systems it might
> be desirable to allow more finegrained tuning.
> (did I hear someone say USE flags ? )
>

which is good for things that dont care about size. Not so good for
embedded systems I think.
and there are some packages I know which have catch-22 situation so
adding max depends is
also not a wholesome solution.

> Enjoy! Frans
>
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