Re: [PATCH] file: remove the original magic.h

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

On Thu, 2015-03-26 at 09:18 +0000, Junling Zheng wrote:
> The magic.h under the src/ directory should be generated by magic.h.in
> during compiling. However, if we modify the magic.h.in, we can find that
> sometimes the magic.h would not be generated again, and then we use the
> original one which is not correct. So remove the original magic.h.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junling Zheng <zhengjunling@huawei.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-devtools/file/file_5.22.bb | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/file/file_5.22.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/file/file_5.22.bb
> index 9c6bb38..f4ee31b 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/file/file_5.22.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/file/file_5.22.bb
> @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ inherit autotools
>  
>  FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/misc/*.mgc"
>  
> +do_configure_prepend() {
> +	if test -f "${B}/src/magic.h"; then
> +		rm -rf ${B}/src/magic.h
> +	fi
> +}
> +

If the task checksums change, ${B} should get entirely wiped out with
recent releases of the build system (e.g. dizzy/fido/master). Which
version was this tested and found to be needed with?

Cheers,

Richard