Re: [PATCH 3/5] help2man-native: Add 1.36.4 (GPLv2) and 1.38.2 (GPLv3)

[Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>]

On 07/15/2011 03:48 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 15:03 -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
>> These are 'side ports' of current oe.dev versions.  PR is kept in sync
>> but we drop out the target recipes in order to punt on potential perl
>> problems.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
>> ---
>>  .../help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb             |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  .../help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb             |   24 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.36.4.bb
>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>>
> [...]
>> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..5612eda
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/help2man/help2man-native_1.38.2.bb
>> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
>> +DESCRIPTION = "Program to create simple man pages"
>> +SECTION = "devel"
>> +LICENSE = "GPLv3"
>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504"
>> +DEPENDS = "autoconf-native automake-native"
>> +PR = "r2"
>> +
>> +SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
>> +SRC_URI[md5sum] = "426671c6fe79e5ef2233303367eab5a6"
>> +SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "952c29561bce8b233aa10af7f0e0c79c8243712810bf8ddf01e6efd82ce250d1"
>> +
>> +inherit autotools native
>> +
>> +EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-nls"
>> +
>> +# We don't want to reconfigure things
>> +do_configure() {
>> +	oe_runconf
>> +}
> 
> At the very least I'd like to know why we can't do this. Its a great way
> to hide bugs (such as libtool rpath injection issues, admittedly in the
> target case).

In oe.dev, chicken and egg problem wrt perl.  Here, I'll see if we can
drop this part too, as part of a v2 with the older help2man dropped and
per IRC, mercurial-native moved over to a meta-oe patch (but keeping the
sanity.bbclass/bitbake.conf change).

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation