Re: [oe] should "ntp-dev" package have header files in it, or not?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, Alex Kiernan wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:51 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 24 Oct 2021, Khem Raj wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 5:51 AM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   colleague recently asked me how to get access to one or more header
> > > > files associated with "ntp", so he could:
> > > >
> > > >   #include <ntp.h>
> > > >
> > > > from some other code. casually, i suggested the standard way was to
> > > > add ntp to his recipe's DEPENDS, but that didn't do it, so i built ntp
> > > > in my own aarch64 project, then took a look under packages-split to
> > > > see what got packaged in ntp-dev, and was puzzled to see it was
> > > > absolutely empty.
> > > >
> > > >   is this deliberate? are other recipes not entitled to ntp's header
> > > > files? am i overlooking something?
> > >
> > > While the header seems to be meant for public consumption, the build
> > > explicitly does not export it, so perhaps thats not expected to be
> > > used this way anymore.
> >
> >   just to tie this back to a question i once asked on (i believe) the
> > YP mailing list, this wind river build is using ntpsec instead of
> > regular ntp, but it would appear this would still have the same
> > problem -- while the ntpsec source contains an "include" directory
> > with lots of ntp-related header files, if one comes up with an ntpsec
> > recipe, nothing would be solved if it also does not install those
> > headers into ntpsec-dev.
> >
> >   so, simple question: does anyone have a bitbake recipe for current
> > ntpsec?
>
> I do, it's unfinished as I realised part way through that the python
> dependency meant it wasn't going to fit for my use case, but the
> basics of the build are there.

  so is there a link for this?

rday