[Buildroot] [PATCH] legal-info: extract even no-redistribute packages

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Fabio, All,

On 2014-03-01 00:39 +0100, Fabio Porcedda spake thusly:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote:
> > From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> >
> > If a package is marked _REDISTRIBUTE = NO, then legal-info will not
> > try to extract it first.
> >
> > If that package also declares some _LICENSE_FILES, legal-info fails
> > if it is the only action we're trying to run:
> >
> >     $ cat defconfig
> >     BR2_INIT_NONE=y
> >     BR2_PACKAGE_LIBFSLCODEC=y
> >     $ make BR2_DEFCONFIG=$(pwd)/defconfig defconfig
> >     $ make libfslcodec-legal-info
> >     /bin/sh: /home/ymorin/dev/buildroot/O/legal-info/licenses.txt: No such file or directory
> >     make[1]: *** [libfslcodec-legal-info] Error 1
> >
> > Fix this by always having legal-info extract the archives if one or
> > more _LICENSE_FILES are specified.
> >
> > Fixes:
> >     http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/884/884ba13bb024fd9a4818f3184495b2cccc3f595e/
> >     http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/b6e/b6e152ce117764337c243a9f356b32064106f5c3/
> >     http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/a58/a588b3b535a1259f7bc110a6323e5f33830bcd94/
> >     http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/6d5/6d5da7fe5aee871d98fd5503875453556ccbf854/
> >     [...]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> > Cc: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  package/pkg-generic.mk | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/package/pkg-generic.mk b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > index 339c3eb..7b4d04e 100644
> > --- a/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > +++ b/package/pkg-generic.mk
> > @@ -555,7 +555,8 @@ $(2)_MANIFEST_LICENSE_FILES = $$($(2)_LICENSE_FILES)
> >  endif
> >  $(2)_MANIFEST_LICENSE_FILES ?= not saved
> >
> > -ifeq ($$($(2)_REDISTRIBUTE),YES)
> > +# If the package declares _LICENSE_FILES, we need to extract it
> > +ifneq ($$($(2)_LICENSE_FILES),)
> >  ifneq ($$($(2)_SITE_METHOD),local)
> >  ifneq ($$($(2)_SITE_METHOD),override)
> 
> If  the package declares _LICENSE_FILES we need to extract it even if
> SITE_METHOD is local or override?

I'm a bit uneasy as deciding what we should do in those cases.

We do not even save the tarballs for 'local' or 'override' packages in
the first place. Saving the license texts would derogate from this
behaviour.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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