Re: [CONSOLIDATED PULL 01/20] bitbake.conf: Create staticlibs pacakge for static libraries

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 10:03 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/conf/bitbake.conf |   12 ++++++++++--
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > index de94316..520b808 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > +++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
> > @@ -194,9 +194,13 @@ This package contains ELF symbols and related sources for debugging purposes."
> >
> >  SUMMARY_${PN}-dev ?= "${SUMMARY} - Development files"
> >  DESCRIPTION_${PN}-dev ?= "${DESCRIPTION}  \
> > -This package contains symbolic links, static binaries, header files, and \
> > +This package contains symbolic links, header files, and \
> >  related items necessary for software development."
> >
> > +SUMMARY_${PN}-staticlibs ?= "${SUMMARY} - Development files (Static Libraries)"
> > +DESCRIPTION_${PN}-staticlibs?= "${DESCRIPTION}  \
> > +This package contains static libraries for software development."
> > +
> >  SUMMARY_${PN}-doc ?= "${SUMMARY} - Documentation files"
> >  DESCRIPTION_${PN}-doc ?= "${DESCRIPTION}  \
> >  This package contains documentation."
> > @@ -248,13 +252,17 @@ FILES_${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${mandir} ${infodir} ${datadir}/gtk-doc \
> >  SECTION_${PN}-doc = "doc"
> >
> >  FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir} ${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/*.la \
> > -                ${libdir}/*.a ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \
> > +                ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \
> >                 ${datadir}/pkgconfig ${datadir}/aclocal \
> >                 ${base_libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.o"
> >  SECTION_${PN}-dev = "devel"
> >  ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
> >  RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
> >
> > +FILES_${PN}-staticlibs = "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a"
> > +SECTION_${PN}-staticlibs = "devel"
> > +RDEPENDS_${PN}-staticlibs = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPV})"
> > +
> 
> I think if you need to divide it then -dev should be divided into
> static, dynamic and headers otherwise this may not be so useful.

The dynamic package would only consist of some symlinks and .la files
though so wouldn't be that much extra compared to the -dev package?

Cheers,

Richard