is oe_soinstall() from utils.bbclass actually used?

is oe_soinstall() from utils.bbclass actually used?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  just going over the mechanics of how shared libs are installed
properly, and noticed that while utils.bbclass defines the helper
routine oe_soinstall(), no one in my current collection of layers
seems to use it; rather, the popular choice is oe_libinstall(), which
seems to subsume the earlier routine given its "-so" option.

  is oe_soinstall() still used?

rday

Re: [OE-core] is oe_soinstall() from utils.bbclass actually used?

[Richard Purdie]

On Sun, 2021-09-05 at 11:34 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   just going over the mechanics of how shared libs are installed
> properly, and noticed that while utils.bbclass defines the helper
> routine oe_soinstall(), no one in my current collection of layers
> seems to use it; rather, the popular choice is oe_libinstall(), which
> seems to subsume the earlier routine given its "-so" option.
> 
>   is oe_soinstall() still used?

I doubt it is used and oe_libinstall is the preferred option now. That said,
that function could be useful and is generally harmless so I'm inclined to leave
it.

Whilst looking, I did notice oe_machinstall which looks more problematic though
and there was a small bit of dead code in oe_libinstall so I sent patches for
those.

Cheers,

Richard