Re: [PATCH 1/3] bitbake: add file-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

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

On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 17:11 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 19 October 2015 at 16:37, Burton, Ross <ross.burton@intel.com>
> wrote:
>         Not sure what to do here.  If we install file-native directly
>         into the sysroot we get occasional races on the file binary
>          causing build failures.  If we make file-native
>         ASSUME_PROVIDED then rpm (and subversion) change their
>         behaviour depending on the presence of libmagic-dev on the
>         host (well, rpm4 requires libmagic, rpm5 and subversion change
>         their configuration).
>         
> 
> Two proposals:
> 
> 
> 1) Tell RPM and Subversion to explicitly enable libmagic support so
> they fail if libmagic-dev isn't installed on the host, and document
> that libmagic-dev is a build requirement
> 2) Change file-replacement-native to install libmagic, and add
> file-replacement-native as a dependency to subversion-native and
> rpm-native.
>
> Does anyone have a strong opinion either way?

I tend to become nervous about -dev requirements so whilst ugly, I'm
leaning towards 2) which is what we've done for other similar issues
IIRC.

Cheers,

Richard