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On Wednesday 14 March 2012 08:18:34 Darren Hart wrote:
> On 03/14/2012 08:07 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 March 2012 16:00:33 Martin Jansa wrote:
> >> isn't just
> >> ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-libncursesw = "1"
> >> enough?
> > 
> > I suspect we don't care if the libncursesw package isn't created when wide
> > character support is disabled, if so, we don't even need that.
> 
> OK, so if a package is defined and none of the files exist, bitbake will
> simply not create the package - and no errors or warnings will be raised?

That's correct.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
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