Re: bitbake.conf: Add git-native to ASSUME_PROVIDED

[Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:00 +0000, McClintock Matthew-B29882 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Originally, git was something new, not installed everywhere and had commandline
> > stability problems. This has changed and git it no longer makes sense to
> > continually build this when the system installed version is likely sufficient.
> >
> > This speeds up build since recipes no longer have to wait for git-native to build
> > if they're fetched from a git:// SRC_URI.
> >
> > Also add git to the sanity checks and drop the no unneeded svn reference.
> 
> What about testing the host system for presence of certain things?
> Then one could
> 
> 1) yum/apt/etc install the needed items

We do something like this in GNOME/jhbuild, but there's no version
comparison:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564373

This is mainly targeted for system libraries which have pkg-config
files, but we're discussing extending it to executables and
non-pkg-config headers:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671042