Re: Issues with .list files

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 02/05/2010 07:37 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> On 05-02-10 04:24, Michael Morrell wrote:
>> If I understand the algorithm in package_do_shlibs correctly, each package creates a .list file which is a list of all the shared libraries provided by that package.  It also generates a list of all the libraries that it needs and looks for those in .list files created by other packages so it can create a runtime dependency against that package.
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>> The way it looks for .list files is to simply scan all *.list files in the directory.  This has two problems that I can see.
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>> First, it is inefficient.  It should only have to look through .list files creates by packages created by bb files which were DEPENDed on by this bb file.
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> Ehm, no. If it did that you'd get missing shlibs in lots of cases. OE
> won't error out, but you're stabbing users of the packages in the eye
> since they get stuck with the mess.

But it does seem like using a library created by something the recipe 
does not DEPEND on is a problem that should be corrected sooner, rather 
than later.

Philip