packaging errors in some -nativesdk recipes

packaging errors in some -nativesdk recipes

[Lu, Lianhao]

Hi guys,

When I'm looking at some package warnings of eglibc-nativesdk(and some other -nativesdk packages' warnings), e.g.

WARNING: For recipe eglibc-nativesdk, the following files/directories were installed but not shipped in any package:
WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libthread_db.so.1
WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libnss_hesiod-2.13.so
WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1+snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libSegFault.so
...... ......

I found this has something to do with the usage of PKGSUFFIX in eglibc-package.inc:

PKGSUFFIX = ""
PKGSUFFIX_virtclass-nativesdk = "-nativesdk"
FILES_eglibc-thread-db${PKGSUFFIX} = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db.so.* ${base_libdir}/libthread_db-*.so"

Instead of the variable FILES_eglibc-thread-db-nativesdk being defined, the variable FILES_eglibc-thread-db gets defined after parsing the eglib-nativesdk recipe, so many files are not packaged in relevant -nativesdk packages. This is because in the functioin finalize() of ast.py in bitbake, it first calls expandKeys() then update_data(), while the OVERRIDES only takes place in the function of update_data(). 

I saw in the git history there was a commit to fix this issue at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc?id=f800862555b81dec65f3de09a2f7b1a0c97a09c1, but later was reverted by the commit http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc?id=2a7870778f141b2f29271405ee62b06cc4856920. 

Any suggestions of how to resolve this issue? We're not 100% sure if we can change the sequence of calling expandKeys() and update_data() in the finalize() in ast.py in bitbake without causing any other problems.

Best Regards,
-Lianhao

Re: packaging errors in some -nativesdk recipes

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 04:45 +0000, Lu, Lianhao wrote:
> When I'm looking at some package warnings of eglibc-nativesdk(and some
> other -nativesdk packages' warnings), e.g.
> 
> WARNING: For recipe eglibc-nativesdk, the following files/directories
> were installed but not shipped in any package:
> WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1
> +snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libthread_db.so.1
> WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1
> +snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libnss_hesiod-2.13.so
> WARNING:   /opt/poky/1.1
> +snapshot/sysroots/x86_64-pokysdk-linux/lib/libSegFault.so
> ...... ......
> 
> I found this has something to do with the usage of PKGSUFFIX in
> eglibc-package.inc:
> 
> PKGSUFFIX = ""
> PKGSUFFIX_virtclass-nativesdk = "-nativesdk"
> FILES_eglibc-thread-db${PKGSUFFIX} = "${base_libdir}/libthread_db.so.*
> ${base_libdir}/libthread_db-*.so"
> 
> Instead of the variable FILES_eglibc-thread-db-nativesdk being
> defined, the variable FILES_eglibc-thread-db gets defined after
> parsing the eglib-nativesdk recipe, so many files are not packaged in
> relevant -nativesdk packages. This is because in the functioin
> finalize() of ast.py in bitbake, it first calls expandKeys() then
> update_data(), while the OVERRIDES only takes place in the function of
> update_data(). 
> 
> I saw in the git history there was a commit to fix this issue at
> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc?id=f800862555b81dec65f3de09a2f7b1a0c97a09c1, but later was reverted by the commit http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc?id=2a7870778f141b2f29271405ee62b06cc4856920. 
> 
> Any suggestions of how to resolve this issue? We're not 100% sure if
> we can change the sequence of calling expandKeys() and update_data()
> in the finalize() in ast.py in bitbake without causing any other
> problems.

We can't change that order, it would create many problems.

How about setting PKGSUFFIX = "-nativesdk" directly in
nativesdk.bbclass?

Cheers,

Richard