Re: [PATCH 3/3] texinfo.bbclass: native/cross uses dummy texinfo; target uses host's Texinfo.

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

On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:24 -0700, Max Eliaser wrote:
> To unpack that to more than a single line: -native and -cross recipes are made
> to use the dummy Texinfo utilities provided by texinfo-dummy-native if they
> invoke those utilities at build time. The target-architecture (cross-compiled)
> recipes still use the genuine Texinfo utilites. Right now, they still use
> the host system's Texinfo utilities, but could be made to use the
> texinfo-native recipe we already ship with some config file changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Eliaser <max.eliaser@intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass | 15 ++++++++++++++-
>  meta/conf/bitbake.conf       |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass b/meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass
> index 60cba0f..92efbcc 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/texinfo.bbclass
> @@ -1,2 +1,15 @@
>  # This class is inherited by recipes whose upstream packages invoke the
> -# texinfo utilities at build-time. This class currently does nothing.
> +# texinfo utilities at build-time. Native and cross recipes are made to use the
> +# dummy scripts provided by texinfo-dummy-native, for improved performance. 
> +# Target architecture recipes use the genuine Texinfo utilities. By default, 
> +# they use the Texinfo utilities on the host system. If you want to use the
> +# Texinfo recipe shipped with yoco, you can remove texinfo-native from 
> +# ASSUME_PROVIDED and makeinfo from SANITY_REQUIRED_UTILITIES.
> +
> +TEXDEP = "texinfo-native"
> +TEXDEP_class-native = "texinfo-dummy-native"
> +TEXDEP_class-cross = "texinfo-dummy-native"
> +

I took this patch but I noticed we should have a class-crosssdk in there
too. Its not a big issue, just a completeness thing.

Cheers,

Richard