Re: [OE-Core] boost: Use PN/BPN for naming of packages

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

On Sun, 2025-03-02 at 07:43 +0000, Alex Kiernan via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> boost-test and boost-serialization were hardcoded, switch to the ${PN} form.
> Also lookup ${BPN} when generating split package names. With these changes,
> generating an explicitly versioned boost package (e.g. "boost-1.82") alongside
> the main boost package ("boost") can be done by copying/renaming the older
> recipe. This is useful when upstream code hasn't yet been ported to newer
> boost and an older version is required.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Kiernan <alex.kiernan@gmail.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
> index 77105aa1fa13..458dfa9ac2fb 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
> +++ b/meta/recipes-support/boost/boost.inc
> @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ python __anonymous () {
>      mlprefix = d.getVar("MLPREFIX")
>      for lib in d.getVar('BOOST_LIBS').split():
>          extras.append("--with-%s" % lib)
> -        pkg = "boost-%s" % (lib.replace("_", "-"))
> +        pkg = "%s-%s" % (d.getVar("BPN"), lib.replace("_", "-"))
>          if "-native" in pn:
>              pkg = pkg + "-native"
>          packages.append(mlprefix + pkg)
> @@ -86,9 +86,9 @@ python __anonymous () {
>  FILES:${PN}-graph_parallel = "${libdir}/libboost_graph_parallel.so.*"
>  FILES:${PN}-locale = "${libdir}/libboost_locale.so.*"
>  FILES:${PN}-mpi = "${libdir}/mpi.so ${libdir}/libboost_mpi*.so.*"
> -FILES:boost-serialization = "${libdir}/libboost_serialization*.so.* \
> +FILES:${PN}-serialization = "${libdir}/libboost_serialization*.so.* \
>  	${libdir}/libboost_wserialization*.so.*"
> -FILES:boost-test = "${libdir}/libboost_prg_exec_monitor*.so.* \
> +FILES:${PN}-test = "${libdir}/libboost_prg_exec_monitor*.so.* \
>  	${libdir}/libboost_unit_test_framework*.so.*"
>  
>  # -dev last to pick up the remaining stuff
> 

Sounds like a reasonable idea but:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/59/builds/1097
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/17/builds/1025
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/92/builds/1097

Cheers,

Richard