Re: [PATCH] libpcre, ncurses: Fix problems expanding the IMAGE_INSTALL package groups

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

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:08 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
> The ncurses and libpcre packages were generating the following errors
> as a result of not specifing the PACKAGES_DYNAMIC correctly.  These
> errors only appear when using the IMAGE_INSTALL list that has been
> expanded by the hob or from the pkgdata.
> 
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'ncurses-libtinfo'
> ERROR: Nothing RPROVIDES 'libpcreposix'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc        |    2 ++
>  meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.32.bb |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> index bcb9c94..78ff153 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
> @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ EXCONFIG_ARGS_virtclass-nativesdk = " \
>  		--with-chtype='long' \
>  		--with-mmask-t='long'"
>  
> +PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "^${PN}-.*"
> +
>  # Fall back to the host termcap / terminfo for -nativesdk and -native
>  # The reality is a work around for strange problems with things like
>  # "bitbake -c menuconfig busybox" where it cannot find the terminfo

This makes sense since its doing dynamic package splitting.

> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.32.bb b/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.32.bb
> index 4d17741..71cc119 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.32.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/libpcre/libpcre_8.32.bb
> @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ inherit autotools binconfig
>  
>  PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
>  
> +PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "^${PN}.*"
> +
>  EXTRA_OECONF = "\
>      --enable-newline-is-lf \
>      --enable-rebuild-chartables \

However this does not. libpcreposix is clearly listed in PACKAGES. Was
this based on an older recipe and can someone check this is needed on
master?

Cheers,

Richard