Re: [PATCH] gzip: Avoid host contamination during build

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

On Tue, 2014-05-27 at 17:38 -0600, Dan McGregor wrote:
> From: Dan McGregor <dan.mcgregor@usask.ca>
> 
> On systems with /bin and /usr/bin merged the gzip recipe may find grep
> in /usr/bin, while OE puts it in /bin. Force the recipe to find grep in
> the correct place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGregor <dan.mcgregor@usask.ca>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> index 920b256..57873cb 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/gzip/gzip.inc
> @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gzip/${BP}.tar.gz"
> 
>  inherit autotools texinfo
> 
> +EXTRA_OEMAKE = "GREP=${base_bindir}/grep"
> +
>  do_install_append () {
>   # Rename and move files into /bin (FHS), which is typical place for gzip
>   install -d ${D}${base_bindir}

My worry is what happens to gzip-native. Do we have to encode a path?

Cheers,

Richard