Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] icu: Add coreutils-native as DEPENDS

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 16:19 +0800, Changqing Li via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> From: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
> 
> icu will check program install path during do_configure, eg:
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /path/to/install -c
> 
> And this path will be writen into pkgdata.inc:
> INSTALL_CMD=$(INSTALL-L)
> 
> Decided by if install is installed into recipe-sysroot-native during
> do_configure stage, the INSTALL_CMD could be
> /build/tmp/work/corei7-64-wrs-linux/icu/76-1/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/install
> or /build/tmp/hosttools/install
> 
> Add coreutils-native as DEPENDS to make a determined result of
> INSTALL_CMD, avoid vary caused by the execute sequence of another task
> which DEPENDS on coreutils-native and also independent with do_configure
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changqing Li <changqing.li@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-support/icu/icu_76-1.bb | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

This needs to be fixed differently, we should be forcing it to use PATH
and set the value to just "install". We don't want to add dependencies
unless we really need them, they slow the builds down and add
inefficiencies.

Cheers,

Richard