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

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

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).

Cheers,

Richard