Re: -dev RPM packages Require:ing all of their bitbake build dependences

[Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>]

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See example attached patch for pkg-config.

A question if we go down this path though - should e.g. the GCC plugin
header files by this rationale also be in the main package, and not
-dev?


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From 1e94c2156c46eada940f7d50ae42cc0984e02237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:11:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] pkgconfig: Include pkg.m4 in main package

Having it in -dev forces consumers to include the -dev package which
in turn pulls in libglib-2.0-dev which pulls in...

I can't imagine anyone wants /usr/bin/pkg-config without the .m4 file.
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
index 641bfae..37f6a90 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pkgconfig/pkgconfig.inc
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--with-installed-glib --with-installed-popt --disable-legacy-scr
 EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-native = "--disable-legacy-scripts"
 EXTRA_OECONF_virtclass-nativesdk = "--disable-legacy-scripts"
 
+# Include the .m4 in the main package - it's silly to have pkg-config without also
+# being able to run aclocal and use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES() macro.
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/aclocal/pkg.m4"
+
 acpaths = "-I ."
 do_configure_prepend () {
 	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/glibconfig-sysdefs.h glib-1.2.10/
-- 
1.7.6.4