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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] expect: Add recipe
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:31:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1383571913.6271.118.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1557371.bvju1MZl3L@helios>

On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 10:01 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Saturday 02 November 2013 11:22:07 Saul Wold wrote:
> > > +DEPENDS = "tcl"
> > > +RDEPENDS_${PN} = "tcl"
> > 
> > You don't need an RDEPENDS_${PN} if it matches with the DEPENDS
> 
> For the sake of others reading, it's not as simple as that. DEPENDS is for 
> build-time dependencies, RDEPENDS is for runtime dependencies; if tcl is 
> needed both at build time and at runtime, and the runtime dependency isn't a 
> shared library dependency, it would be valid to have both in the recipe. It 
> depends on the situation.

Just to further confuse things, if you have the RDEPENDS, you don't need
the DEPENDS since bitbake can infer that...

Cheers,

Richard



      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-02  2:08 [PATCH V3] expect: Add recipe Khem Raj
2013-11-02 18:22 ` Saul Wold
2013-11-04 10:01   ` Paul Eggleton
2013-11-04 13:31     ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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