Re: [PATCH] rpm: avoid dependency on perl and python for -native build

[Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>]

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 23:26 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> My understanding is that if you are going to explicitly override DEPENDS
> like that you get what you say you want. We therefore likely need to do
> something like:
> 
> DEPENDS = "X Y Z ${EXTRAPERLDEPS}"
> EXTRAPERLDEPS = "perl python"
> EXTRAPERLDEPS_virtclass-native = ""

Yes, that would be neater.  As it happens I did try that first but it
didn't seem to work: for reasons which were (and remain) a bit
mysterious to me, the original EXTRAPERLDEPS were always showing up in
DEPENDS for the virtclass-native build.  I assumed at the time that
there was some ordering problem between the override being processed and
the ORIG_DEPENDS assignment in native.bbclass, but I wasn't entirely
sure what the intended semantics were and so I didn't pursue that line
of enquiry any further.

p.