Re: [PATCH v2] bitbake.conf: Add sdl-config to HOSTTOOLS if using host SDL

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 21:11 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On 27 June 2017 at 20:38, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 20:24 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> >> Hi Patrick,
> >>
> >> The original problem was that bitbake would print out the error:
> >> "libsdl-native is set to be ASSUME_PROVIDED but sdl-config can't be
> >> found in PATH. Please either install it, or configure qemu not to
> >> require sdl.", if "libsdl-native" was in ASSUME_PROVIDED even if the
> >> host has sdl-config in its PATH.
> >>
> >> This occurred really early for a clean build and bitbake would bail
> >> out. The sanity check is in meta/classes/sanity.bbclass.
> >
> > I've not hit that problem, probably because the sanity check was not run
> > again when I changed ASSUME_PROVIDED. I can reproduce it in a clean
> > build directory without conf/sanity_info.
> >
> > I think extending HOSTTOOLS merely to satisfy sanity.bbclass is the
> > wrong solution to the problem. It makes sdl-config available to all
> > recipes, which is unnecessary and potentially introduces back host
> > contamination.
> >
> > It is unnecessary because the qemu recipe has special code that enables
> > the use of the host SDL when told to do so via ASSUME_PROVIDED.
> >
> > Can you come up with a better solution, probably by patching
> > sanity.bbclass?
> 
> I can't think of any at this stage.

Here's what qemu.inc does:

do_configure_prepend_class-native() {
        # Append build host pkg-config paths for native target since the host may provide sdl
        BHOST_PKGCONFIG_PATH=$(PATH=/usr/bin:/bin pkg-config --variable pc_path pkg-config || echo "")
        if [ ! -z "$BHOST_PKGCONFIG_PATH" ]; then
                export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$BHOST_PKGCONFIG_PATH
        fi

insanity.bbclass could use the host pkg-config to ensure that sdl.pc is
installed.

> Feel free to post a patch if you come up with something better.

Sorry, I don't have time for that. I've filed
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11725 so that we don't
forget about it.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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