Re: New warning

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

On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 09:34 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm getting these new warnings, even with a build from scratch.  This is from
> poky master rev 7c39c87d52c20e47cf90275a16e4517a296c8388
> 
> WARNING: The recipe is trying to install files into a shared area when those files already exist. Those files are:
>     /home/local/p81_build/tmp/sysroots/cobra3530p81/usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h
>     /home/local/p81_build/tmp/sysroots/cobra3530p81/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so
>     /home/local/p81_build/tmp/sysroots/cobra3530p81/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
>     /home/local/p81_build/tmp/sysroots/cobra3530p81/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile
> 
> Do they hurt anything?  Why am I getting them now, what's changed, etc?

I fixed the code that was supposed to be generate these messages and we
started seeing them. Its a new type of check added relatively recently
but was accidentally disabled in its original commit.

The python recipe does something particularly evil, the do_compile pokes
file into STAGING_DIR_* directly for various reasons.

The do_install then does save off the files correctly but there is an
overwrite situation occurring there and I don't consider the recipe to
be doing something particularly nice.

So there is an issue there, it won't break your build but we should
really do something better.

Cheers,

Richard